It’s so very cold where I live right now. Yup, cold enough that I am plugging in my car each night, and still praying that it will start the next day. One thing about the cold is that the air is so very crisp and clear, and the night sky is beautiful. […]

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m in a minor state of shock that the holiday season is already upon us — again! Or maybe it’s denial?
I swear it seems that I only just put away all the holiday decorations, but regardless of my shock, denial or just plain absentmindedness, ready […]

Anyone giving books for Christmas??
I know this is the chicken way of Christmas shopping but you gotta admit, books work!
I’m totally horrid in the shopping department this year…didn’t do Black Friday, or wait in lines or elbow my way to any great sales. The only thing I did do was visit B&N and Amazon. IMO […]

I have a question for you dear reader. But first let me set the stage. In the lovely world of publishing there has been some mud slinging that I want to bring to your attention (if you don’t already know).
Case #1 involves author Anne Stuart who spoke out against her current and former publishers […]

I have been an avid romance reader for a lot longer than I’ve been a romance writer. Like all readers, I developed a fondness for some storylines and found premises I couldn’t buy into with an open check book and a trust fund. Unless they were expertly executed, I couldn’t check my credulity at the […]

Some fun statistics:
Work time spent at blogs unrelated to work
will eat up 1.65% of labor force hours.
U.S. workers this year will waste the
equivalent of 551,000 years (based on a 24-hour day)
or 2.3 million work years (based on a typical nearly
40-hour work week) reading blogs unrelated to the job.
Work time spent reading and posting to […]

The Sultan’s Seduction is my story in this fab Christmas anthology, One Christmas Night, with Jane Porter and Michelle Reid.
Don’t miss Lizzie Palmer’s Night with The Sultan!
And on the subject of nights with the Sultan, let’s talk presents…
Presents… Happy sigh!
Writing is such a pleasure, and in so many ways. For instance, when my hero […]