I am suffering from one HUGE case of the winter blues.
For those of you who don’t know, I’m up here in arctic Michigan. It’s been like twenty-bazillion below zero for weeks. The air is so cold, it takes eons for the car to warm up, the kids can’t go to school, and water-mains are busting, […]

Anyone familiar with the Chinese zodiac? Obviously, I’m not following it to the letter, since there is no such thing as a year of the Vampire. But I find the concept of cyclical dating fascinating. Yeah, yeah. I’m a little late in this discovery. The Chinese zodiac’s been around for…uh…a little while. But hey, it’s […]

Maybe it’s a little early to be thinking about this stuff. But hey, our local radio station’s already changed to their All-Christmas music format, all the stores are dripping with tinsel and garland, and there’s a giant inflatable snow globe sitting in the middle of Meijers. My kids have already written their wish lists for […]

This morning I logged into one of my MySpace pages to approve a couple of new online “friends”, and for the first time I noticed the statistics displayed on the right side of the window.
My Network has 120,676,000 plus members.
One hundred twenty million?
Is that possible? Are there that many folks on MySpace? Wow! Can’t […]

Book trailers–mini-movies–seem to be all the rage these days. They’re everywhere on MySpace, as well as in blogs and on websites. I’ve heard they’re even being shown in movie theaters. And they’re not just being used by epublished authors.
Deidre Knight has a fabulous trailer here: Deidre Knight
Sylvia Day has several: Sylvia Day
Eden Bradley […]

…and other pleasant surprises.
I LOVE it when people surprise me–be that real people or characters in books.
Take for instance my hubby, who after holding strong in his anti-Renaissance Garb stance for nine long years, this weekend went hog wild and dressed himself head-to-toe in Festival gear! For those who don’t know, I am a costume […]

I spent the past weekend doing book signings in Ohio. It’s always a joy meeting people who have read my books, talking to them, finding out what they enjoyed (or hated) about my stories. And it’s incredibly flattering when someone looks at little ole me with stars in their eyes, as if I’m someone special […]