What is it about cowboys that get your heart racing? Is the boots and hat? The chaps or huge belt buckle?
 Not for me!
It’s that swaggering, bravado, that “I can get the job done” attitude and the quiet determination that sets my blood on fire. Okay and the rough, work-worn hands. I can image them grazing [...]

I may have mentioned here how much I like to be organized. It could be a Virgo by-product, but whether the stars have anything to do with it or not, this trait has been showing up in my life since I first rearranged my Barbie’s closets. No doll case stuffed with gear falling [...]

Okay, in the context of this blog, you’re probably thinking I’m making an announcement about a new book deal. Wrong!
On May 3rd, I attended a Bachelor’s Auction in a nearby Arkansas town with a group of writer buddies—strictly for research purposes—uh huh. And all in the name of a good cause—to raise money for cancer [...]

I love to read exciting new romance stories as much as the next person, but there are a few standard plot lines that I just can’t resist–don’t want to resist. And it doesn’t matter that every Jane Doe author has already written her take on said plot. Nor does it matter that the [...]

I’m writing my sixth historical book now—the third in The Legend of the Four Soldiers series—and already I’ve gone off my writing map. Writers generally fall into two groups: ones who plot out their story before they begin writing and those who wing it. I’m in the former camp, but here’s the thing: no matter [...]

I had one of those family moments the other day when I was desperate to show a younger relative a photo of her paternal grandmother. How desolate was I when I couldn’t find the picture I was looking for- and it got me to thinking about all the treasures that get mislaid over the years-
Have [...]

Writers are always learning from other writers and one of my CozyChicks Chicks came up with this great idea with our blog. Heather Webber started Bullet Points. You know what Bullet Points are–in the case of this writer, they are a quick run down of the who, what, why and how things are going in [...]