In today’s AR Fun, we’d like to give you a heads up about changes we’re making to the TellTale feature of our website come November. Instead of two columns a month in the TellTale area, we’ll be moving the columns over here, to the blog, to be posted on some weekends.
We’d love to have your […]

I was just thinking about the brief I received for my book in the fab Niroli series, Expecting his Royal Baby.

My hero, Nico Fierezza was to have ‘Light, honey brown hair…’
Er, sorry? I beg your pardon? My hero is to have light, honey brown hair?
So Nico’s honey brown hair was transmogrified by Yours Truly […]

I was wondering how many of you are influenced by the internet when it comes to book buying. Authors have a big task in front of them when a book is released. We have to decide where to put our marketing dollars and our limited time. I’ve been told that a good […]

It’s wrong to have favorites sometimes, isn’t it?
Favorite strappy sandals, fine.
Favorite child, not so good.
For an author to choose a favorite book of her own is a little like choosing favorite children. You love them all, more or less equally. But I’d be lying if I said my upcoming romance, Sweeter Than Revenge, didn’t have […]

I have a deep, dark secret.
I have an alias.
Not only that, but my alias writes contemporary romances. Yes, I’m afraid it’s true. In January my first contemporary, HOT, will be out under the pen name, Julia Harper. I’ve only recently come out with my new name and one of the interesting things that I’ve found […]

I’m distracted. We’re on a road trip with three young children who now have swords and light sabers. (Yes, someone’s daddy has trouble saying no) So right now I’m in a hotel room across the street from Disneyland and there’s utter chaos all around me and I know I wanted to have this done ahead […]

I need a vacation.
With the kids in school and up to their eyeballs in sports, I can’t necessarily run off to the Caribbean and take a few days R & R right now, but I still crave some fresh surroundings and the taste of exotic foods. I could wail about the […]