The genius girls in the office next to mine have come up with a new way to wile away the hours: a Quiz of the Week. Every week, a new question appears on their dry-erase board. Last week, the question was “What Would You Be If You Weren’t a Lawyer?” The answer […]

There’s been a lot of brouhaha recently about authors self-promoting on the internet. If you go to the discussions section on Amazon, the thread about intrusive authors has garnered far more commentary than any other topic. Authors are everywhere these days: posting on websites, promoting their own books on Amazon, writing blogs. […]

This is a big week for me. Today my little sister goes off to college. (Since she was just starting first grade when I went off to college, this makes me feel very, very old). And on Tuesday, my third book, The Deception of the Emerald Ring, comes out in paperback. […]

Why is it that no matter how much you pack, you’re always missing something you need?
Like the kitchen sink, which is all that isn’t in my very wheel-less satchel at the moment. I know I’m going to be regretting that lack of wheels quite soon. As well as the five extra […]

Do you remember your first Kathleen E. Woodiwiss? I do.
It was one of those endless summer days when even the dust motes seem sleepy. I had already read through my entire Jude Deveraux collection, played all the Barbies any eleven year old can be expected to play, and ascertained that there […]

Although I always like to claim that my books aren’t based on my own life (at least, not mostly), it’s almost impossible not to replicate bits of one’s own experience. As I’ve started working on the fifth book in the Pink Carnation series, I’ve realized that one extremely important aspect of my life has […]

Over the past few days, I’ve spent a lot of time staring off into space. I grin foolishly at inappropriate moments, babble to bored friends, and make stranges faces when nobody is looking or sometimes even when they are. In short, I have all the classic symptoms. I admit it. I […]