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 […]

Summer is here. Which means my kids are home and my time is taken up differently so I have to guard my schedule more carefully or I won’t get my work done. And I have a book due July 31 and another one in September so I can’t give in to the long, bright, hot […]

Because I’ve gotten used to windows movie maker through doing video blogging, I thought I’d try to make a book video for a few of my upcoming books. The problem is, like video blogging, I look up and an hour has passed without my knowing it. It’s fun to think about how to present your […]

So back in August of 2006, my husband and I went on our first vacation without kids since we actually had kids. We went to Las Vegas, one of my favorite places in the world and we ate in restaurants without paper tablecloths and crayons and had pretty drinks at three thirty in the afternoon […]

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us

Albert Schweitzer
This writing gig is long and lonely and none of us makes it without the support of those around us. It’s […]

This thing we do as authors is a gift. Truly I’m so wonderfully fortunate not only to live this dream but to be able to write about human beings and their relationships and connection to each other. I am, at heart, a sucker for love. Not that love doesn’t take hard work to sustain, it does, but […]

Today, at last, I’ve finished with all the tweaks and polishing of Taking Care of Business - the erotic romance I c-wrote with Megan Hart. There was a kefuffle between our own documents, google document where we’d been working together and at last when I imported it back to Word. But it’s done and nicely ahead […]