Us authors talk a lot about promotion and what works and what doesn’t. In fact, we are sometimes a little obsessed. I’ve had the “How much it too much?” conversation with writer friends of mine every now and then, and it can get pretty heated. LOL It’s become an ongoing debate so […]

I had a lot of fun this past month working on the Contest Page for my series The Black Stockings Society. However I had no idea that coming up with an image of the prize(s) would be such an ordeal.
First I created a table-top display of the prizes, and discovered that the flat table […]

This week I finished and submitted my futuristic, Relentless, to my editor at Berkley.  I’m happy to be done. Sort of loopy because I have end of book brain. Nervous because I hope she’ll like it. Accomplished because when I started the book it was nothing and now it’s 95,000 words.
A book is like a […]

   Next week I’ll be taking part in a romance reader’s dream experience — signing at the RWA (Romance Writers of America) Literacy Signing in San Francisco. Why is it a romance reader’s dream? Because I am signing along with more than 450 romance authors. Yeppers — more than 450 romance authors all in one […]

I’m in the middle of my WIP right now, and it’s slow-going. Part of that is internal stuff that’s messing with my productivity–another book is launching in a week; copyedits are due on another story; day job has been stressful–but part of it is I’m worried that my characters are standing (or sitting) around, navel […]

The Butterfly Effect, part of chaos theory, states that making even one small change can cause a huge ripple effect, drastically changing long-term results.
“The flapping of a single butterfly’s wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it […]

I was part of a booksigning and author panel yesterday with Fronnie Lewis and Charlene Sands. We are giving the same workshop at the RWA Conference in two weeks. This time, we spoke at the Los Angeles Romance Authors group (LARA) meeting. This was my second time speaking at one of LARA’s […]