This is a big week for me. Today my little sister goes off to college. (Since she was just starting first grade when I went off to college, this makes me feel very, very old). And on Tuesday, my third book, The Deception of the Emerald Ring, comes out in paperback. […]

We hear plenty of talk about kids who don’t read and adults who don’t read. As a parent, I stuff books in my kids’ hands all the time to make sure they become fluid readers and are exposed to lots of different kinds of stories. I don’t want them to be in the category of […]

No, I’m not talking about global warming, a great day spent on a tropical beach, or a heavy duty survival reality show where you’re stuck for weeks on end with hunky men who can make a raft out of palm trees and sunscreen out of an exotic combination of plant and herb. I’m talking about […]

Sometimes there’s just nothing better for me than curling up with a good book, or settling deep into my fantasy world in the writing cave…
Yep, this cover definitely induces a state of the Warm Fuzzies
But there are those moments- notably when I’ve just submitted a manuscipt and am ’slow cooking’ the next […]

I don’t know about you, but I started reading romance around the ripe old age of thirteen. I’ve thought a lot about this topic lately because my youngest daughter is fourteen and such a voracious reader I can’t keep her in books! So what do I do? I pass her a romance novel, of which […]

Actually … I’m not talking waistbands today. We can discuss middle-age spread another day.
No, I’m talking sagging book middles or, rather, my sagging attention span.
Here’s what happens:
I start reading a new romance, and am filled with joy and rapture. I can hardly stand the thrill of discovery, of learning about this new couple, […]

The third and final book in my Princes trilogy, The Serpent Prince, debuts in a little less than a week, so book series are on my mind at the moment. As an author, I love having the space of several books to arc out a character. A character might start as the hero’s sidekick, or […]