What grabs you about a romance novel’s cover? What’ll make you stop dead in your tracks in a bookstore and pick up a book to gaze at the beautiful artwork?
Do you like the steamy clinch? The half-naked body parts? The dreamy, unfocused corner of a face?
Or is it the color that grabs […]

My second book, The Leopard Prince, is out this week. This makes me a relatively new author and I have a terrible confession to make.
I hate trying new authors.
Okay, maybe hate is too strong a word, but in a perfect world I’d probably be content to read the same favorite authors over […]

I’ve been anguishing over book titles lately — specifically, the titles for the two books I’m currently writing for Silhouette Romantic Suspense. I want the titles to sound sexy and intriguing — just like my super hot heroes. The editors want the titles to reflect both the suspense and the romance.
So here’s the […]

I was thrilled to be nominated for a RITA this week. Technically, one of my books got nominated and in the interest of learning to separate myself more from work, I should probably be clear about that distinction. But a lot of us creative types are pretty well-identified with our work. A […]

I just watched the final episode of season 3 of my favorite TV show of all time—Battlestar Galactica. And it was a doozey. It was in fact brilliant and moved me to tears more than once. At one point, I was gripping the arms of my chair while I watched enthralled with […]

Last week the ARCs for my upcoming release Your Mouth Drives Me Crazy arrived on my doorstep. To be technically correct, the fedex guy put a box of uncorrected proofs on my front porch. For me this is as exciting as Christmas. It gives me a little thrill to hold the […]

One question that is asked over and over in interviews and chats is “Where do you get your inspiration?” or a variation of that. Normally my answer is “I have no idea, it just comes to me.” But with my April reelase from Aphrodisia, LUSH, I can honestly tell you where it […]