When a secondary character walks onto the stage I usually pair them off or kill them…and have been doing so since my first book, HeartMate. If you know an author, and they write series, you can usually pick out whose story might be coming next.
In my latest published book, Heart Quest, I introduced the hero […]

So, have you ever read a book and the characters are eating dinner and you salivate? You go get your own dinner? You like the idea of what they’re eating so much you have to have their meal?
Oh, yeah. I do that.
Especially if what the characters are eating is a favorite of […]

Sometimes the muse grips you and doesn’t let you go until you write an inspired scene. This has usually happened to me in a BIG way in at least every book I’ve published, and makes me feel as if I’d taken a step to being a better writer. In HeartMate, there was an […]

I was reading my reviews on amazon the other day (I know, I know, an exercise in masochism I shouldn’t be addicted to), and found one that really made me think. Something about my heroines issuing ultimatums and walking out on their men.
Now, I don’t believe this is true. And if it IS […]

We were recently talking on a reader-writer list about Soulmate books and how some people WON’T read them. I think the main problem in writing a Soulmate book is that the writer MUST include as important a conflict as in any romance. It’s easy to say “Oh, they’re soulmates, OF COURSE they belong […]

I am currently writing two series. My “Heart” books are set on a fantasy world (Celta) with psi/magic colonized by Earth centuries ago. For these books, I usually have a hero and heroine you’ve met before who were secondary characters previously. I also usually wrap up the plot, though I may leave […]

Naturally this blog has to deal with mothers! I am close to my mother and I love her dearly, but the mothers in my work are not always so loving. In Sorceress of Faith, the main inner conflict my heroine (Marian) had was with her mother and the image her mother had of […]