For a long time, I didn’t watch much television beyond my soaps. When life got really, really busy in the past few years, I pretty much gave up those as well, watching intermittently rather than religiously every day. Then a few years ago, I noticed that what I like to call my cultural [...]

Maybe it’s a little early to be thinking about this stuff. But hey, our local radio station’s already changed to their All-Christmas music format, all the stores are dripping with tinsel and garland, and there’s a giant inflatable snow globe sitting in the middle of Meijers. My kids have already written their wish lists for [...]

I’ve just joined Access Romance and am thrilled to be a blogger here. For this, my very first blog with AR, I’d planned to introduce myself, my books, my philosophies, and generally treat you to, as Katie Couric would say, “a celebration of all things moi.” Alas, something big has happened, necessitating a [...]

A bad thing happened to me the other day. My very first book, THE RAVEN PRINCE, is out and some idiot called my publicist at Warner Forever and asked to interview me for a radio show.
“So can you do it?” the publicist e-mailed me.
“Of course!” I e-mailed back, flinging happy face emoticons right and [...]

What do you fear? This may seem like an odd question now that Halloween has passed, but I’m in the midst of writing a romantic suspense proposal and my heroine is scared. She has just seen a man murdered and now the killer is after her. So I’ve been thinking a lot [...]

As a writer, I am often asked where I get my ideas for stories. I have a few answers for this—all of them true.
Stories come from everywhere, I’ve insisted in online interviews and casual conversations alike. A magazine article, a TV news snippet, a character in a movie, an argument between a couple [...]

I love a good series. When I find a great character in an amazing world there’s nothing better than knowing that I can visit them again and again. I get a giddy feeling inside when I find a brand new series to sink my teeth into.
Now for me, a series has to have [...]