Don’t hate the little guy in the toga. Every year, as the drugstore trots out its red doily decorations, all my single friends grumble that there are no more good men/women/sheep out there and threaten to wear black, while all the coupled ones wail about the pressures of expectation and the impossibility of attaining [...]

I am suffering from one HUGE case of the winter blues.
For those of you who don’t know, I’m up here in arctic Michigan. It’s been like twenty-bazillion below zero for weeks. The air is so cold, it takes eons for the car to warm up, the kids can’t go to school, and water-mains are busting, [...]

You know what Tuesday, February 6, 2007 was, right? Yes? No? Here’s a hint: check out the sidebar to the right, under “New Books.” Still nothing? Sheesh.
It was the release date for my second book, Risk.
Not ringing a bell for you? *SIGH*
How about this date: July 21, 2007. [...]

I’ve decided that for me, reading romance is all about the guy. Sure, it helps to have a likable heroine, and if she’s a total idiot that book may well hit the wall, but in the end it’s the hero that makes or breaks a romance. And after too many decades of reading [...]

Like many writers, I have a contest on my website. Writers like to run contests because it’s fun and it brings readers to their websites. Readers like contests because it gives them an idea of what new books are out there and, well, frankly, who doesn’t like to win a prize?
So when I [...]

There’s no time like Super Bowl day to share my lot in life as the spouse of a sports nut. It’s not surprising really, since I was the first one in line to fall in love with all of Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ sports heroes and I went on to write a snowboarder, a race [...]

****************WINNER***********************
Maria Duncan…come on down. You’re the lucky winner of a copy of BLOOD SECRETS. Please email me at vivaciousvivianna@yahoo.ca to claim your prize!!!!
Lately I’ve been trolling review sites looking for reviews of my book BLOOD SECRETS that’s coming out next month.
And in my travels I discovered something interesting that I hadn’t really thought [...]