Question: If someone ends up with four deadlines in one week is that bad timing or bad luck?
Answer: It’s insanity.
Yes, I have four deadlines this week, including posting for this blog. But I won’t complain about it because deadlines mean I’m working and working is good.
However, this also means I’m guranteed at least […]

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 […]

It’s finally here. Power Play, the first book in The Black Stockings Society series, is now available.
I had fun with this book. In it you will meet Mary Reyland, a quiet, sweet woman who doesn’t stay that way for long. I enjoyed watching her grow into a force to be reckoned with. She turns […]

I just came back from LA and the Book Expo. Both were wonderful. Attending an event like Book Expo America always reminds me what a big business book publishing is. There were a number of celebrities like Dionne Warwick who signed her upcoming children’s book.

William Shatner, George Hamilton and Alec Baldwin also appeared to promote […]

As a child I loved the stories of author L. M. Montgomery. All her books not just the “Anne” ones and I especially enjoyed The Blue Castle. It’s the story of an overburdened, dowdy spinster who decides to “live” and win the heart of a man after being told she was going to die.

I didn’t […]

In celebration of April Fool’s Day I would like to share some top literary hoaxes.
By now you’ve heard of James Frey’s partially-fabricated memoir A Million Little Pieces and Margaret B. Jones’ totally-fabricated memoir Love and Consequences.
But there are more.

Many anonymous teenage diaries like Go Ask Alice were actually written (not just edited) by Beatrice […]

The cover of my upcoming release Power Play (July 2008) got me thinking about covers. My publisher believes that it has the one element that will make it attractive to readers unlike my…ahem…less successful cover forThe Glass Slipper Project. Can you guess?

That’s correct. Power Play has a man and readers like that, right? […]