Okay, I’m bored. I don’t know when it happened, but it hit me big time last week. I’m bored. Plain and simple. Nothing is keeping my interest. Not even the books I’ve been buying. I need something to drive me out of this funk. I need […]

One thing I enjoy most about writing a series is that you don’t have to let go of your characters so quickly.
 
I get really attached to some of my characters while writing my book.  (Yes, I know they’re not real; I don’t send them Christmas or birthday gifts.)  But while I’m working on a book, […]

Series romances are getting shorter.  Across the board, Harlequin has tightened up their word count guidelines in the last year, condensing most of their series by a few thousand words.  This is good and bad for authors.  On the one hand—maybe I can finish my story faster with a shorter word count!  On the other […]

I spent Sunday at a joust not because I write medieval romance–but rather because my younger son is into armour, helmets, chainmail, swords, waterskins and the like. And once he’d seen a postcard advertising the event, that was it. We were going.
We’d never been to any kind of re-enactment festival. I’d heard of […]

Recently on my personal blog, I shared the creative process I had gone through for Tess Autrey’s story. Tess is the heroine of UNBROKEN, my novella in the anthology TEX APPEAL. Though in every version she ended up with Wyatt Crowe, the plots morphed and changed and evolved over time. What makes […]

A question for you: have you ever received a promotional item from an author that made you want to either visit the author’s website or purchase the author’s book? If so, what was the item? What was compelling about the item, or the message, that made you follow through? What about the opposite: have you […]

Strong heroes — we all love them. They’re those courageous, lethal men who slay enemies, diffuse bombs, and save the grateful world. But do all heroes have to be so glamorous? Can a non-weapon wielding, non-karate chopping man star in one of our books?
I know that depends on genre. The […]