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Excerpt Monday: In the Shadows

I realized, as I wrapped up Northern Roses and Southern Bells reviews, I didn't do anything for my story. No, still no review--that really is beyond needed. But a short excerpt. Also, in the annual Predators and Editors awards, we placed in the Top Ten--#6!!


I loved writing this story, most especially working with my fellow Victorians. It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the time period immensely! Hopefully one day I'll get back to the era. I have plans for Marion's sisters. *G*


In the Shadows Ch...

Love Birds

Love is in the air! And it's FREE! My short story, Love Birds is free in time for Valentine's Day. It's the 2nd in my Birds stories, the first being the Christmas story, Four Calling Birds (I know it's not how the song goes, but just go with the title. *G*)
Lark Summers, Paige Nightingale, Megan Cardinal-Walsh, and Eva Robin are four best friends with a mission. To spend Valentine's Day with the men in their lives no matter what the day throws at them.
Lark has been in lust with her professor ...

Friday Guest: Nicole McCaffrey

Hello Nicole! Thanks so much for stopping by today! What's that? There are people out there who don't know you? Shocking I say! They don't know what they're missing. :) And have you seen her cover for her newest release? *To Die For* Check it out here.

What made you decide to write The Model Man?

I couldn't not write it. The characters came to me so strong and insistent, and kept nagging me to tell their story. They just wouldn't leave me alone, LOL. Even though I knew nothing about cover mo...

Thursday Progress

However, I did have off last Friday because I worked Saturday. And then, because I do have a reputation at work for being an emergency closing magnet, we closed on Saturday when a state of emergency was declared before a flake of snow even fell. SWEET! Two days in a row to write, write, write.

It was lovely. But then my laptop died Monday night. *panic* Immediately called IT guy from work/friend who is STILL working on it and thinks it may be on its last, er, lap. Breathing through the...

Wednesday Review: The Model Man

Let's face it. When confronted with the unbelievable in a totally believable situation you, too, will believe. Take one romance author single mother and the hot, younger male cover model and what do you get? Yumminess.
Kelly Michaels wants nothing to do with the hotness that is model Derek Calavicci, but when he sets out to seduce her, what's a woman to do? I'd "melt like ice cream on a hot sidewalk" every time he touched me, too. Yum....Age is no barrier, which I really dig about this story. ...

Tuesdays Comings and Goings

Monday I am (or was) at Unusual Historicals talking about this month's theme, Love Affairs.

Tuesday (being today lol) I'm over at Fang-tastic talking about the ever sexy and sarcastic James Blackthorne and his story, Dark Desires of the Druids IV: Temptations and Treachery. I do hope you'll stop by!

Wednesday I'll be at Slip into Something Victorian with a brief bit on Alan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

Hmm, no...

Dark Desires of the Druids IV: Temptations and Treachry

The final in my Druids series. Though I'm never opposed to adding more to the verse, the arc I set for myself is finished. If I did another story centered around this time and place, it wouldn't have much (if anything) to do with my core characters. I won't rule out to a story set in contemporary times, however. *G*

The story arc was 3 books, this one was added because, well...I wanted Isadore to have a story. Poor woman deserved a happy ending of her own! She deserved love and passion and adv...

Friday Guest: Caroline Clemmons

Today Caroline joins me. A Texan, she writes the kinds of stories I gobbled up in high school and college, when I had time to indulge in romance books. Who needed to study? ;)

What draws you to the Civil War/post-Civil War era?

Write what you know. I positively love American history, but especially that of the South and West. No matter where my books begin, the characters end up in Texas. I am more familiar with my own family's history during the mid to late 19th century, and that makes this t...

Thursday Progress

Stumbling block overcome! Wrote close to 10,000 words since this time last week. It really is all about the breakdown. I'm closing in on the halfway mark for the chapter-scene breakdown and know this is the reason I had so many difficulties getting to this point. Overall plot, Act breakdown, Cliff for each act, Chapter breakdown, Scene breakdown, Write. I'm trying for a chapter a day, or 3-4 chapters during the work week. If I have the weekend set aside for writing, 3-4 more on Saturdays and ...

Wednesday Review: Northern Roses and Southern Belles

No, I'm not reviewing my story, In the Shadows, this week. I'm all for self-promotion but that seems beyond the pale. This week's review is Caroline Clemmons's Long Way Home .

This story starts with action and doesn't stop. But the romance between Parmelia and Derreck is what really makes this story. I love a good betrayal story, where the past needs to be explained and the hurt of abandonment overcome. I don't know why, but it's always been a favorite. Maybe because they have to work doubly ha...