by Gail Barrett
I’ve always wanted to write a book set in Spain, an ancient land steeped in intriguing contrasts — poetry and passion, flamenco music and bagpipes, Roman bridges and Celtic ruins.
I first went to Spain decades ago as a student. I intended to spend a year there, but ended up staying for four. […]

by Joanne Rock
My new Blaze turned out to be a little more timely than I could have predicted.  It started out like so many of my Blazes do– sexy and fun, with a scintillating meet between the hero and heroine.  All was rocking along just fine until my subplot came along.
Then […]

by Karen Kendall
TAKE ME IF YOU CAN is the first book in a series about an agency that recovers stolen art—and other valuable items. ARTemis, Inc. is a Miami-based firm that my heroine, Avy Hunt, co-founded . . . with Kelso, a man whom nobody’s ever met.

It all started with […]

by Bronwyn Jameson
Earlier this week I told the tale of the long road to publication for my April release.Tycoon’s One-Night Revenge suffered through several casting calls and location changes before I found the right mix. Originally I’d wanted to set the book in California and Lake Tahoe, in locations I scouted on my 2005 […]

by Dianne Castell
One of the reasons I wrote Hot and Bothered (Kensington BRAVA April 08) was to set a book in the South and not just geographically but in characters and language and food! Characters in NY are way different than characters in Savannah. You won’t hear the doorman at the NY Hilton say Y’all […]

by Joanne Rock
When people ask me where I get the inspiration for the books I write, I usually have a hard time answering succinctly since the truth is—usually—that the inspiration comes from everywhere. I key into an overheard conversation and glean some enticing tidbit for a bit of character backstory. Or I watch a […]

by Lydia Joyce
The idea for SHADOWS OF THE NIGHT came from the thought that not every “society marriage” should be condemned as pointless in romance merely because it was undertaken for less-than-romantically-admirable reasons.
Romance very often idolizes the heroine who will settle for no less than true love in a marriage, and it discards the social […]