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An Illicit Temptation: The Wild, Wild…East

I’m blogging over at the Ruby-Slippered Sisterhood about the connection between Westerns and Asian film as well as some of my favorite old school western romances and how they influenced An Illicit Temptation which releases September 1. Click on over for a chance to win a digital copy of An Illicit Temptation: The Wild, Wild…East [...]

3rd Annual Writers in the Park

I’m speaking tomorrow along with the lovely and talented Shawntelle Madison (urban fantasy author of Coveted) at the 3rd Annual Writers in the Park event. We’ll be chatting on “Finding an Agent and Publisher”. Our books will also be on sale and we’ll be available to sign. I think we make a great team because [...]

Losing One’s First Kiss

YA author, Bria Quinlan, is doing a feature on her blog this month about kisses and graciously invited me to join. I’m over there today with a little chat about kissing in Chinese culture. I didn’t realize that Chinese women often referred to “Losing their first kiss”. Click on over for a PG-13 discussion about [...]

An Illicit Temptation

Release Date: September 1, 2012 Tang Dynasty China, 824 A.D. Dao was raised as a servant, but when her half-sister flees an arranged marriage to a chieftain, Dao is sent in her place as Princess An-Ming. Such a future is better than she could have hoped for, yet she dreads a passionless union with a [...]

Kickstarter: Love Between the Covers documentary

I’m so excited about this! I remember meeting Laurie Kahn and hearing her describe this project and being amazed at how BIG it was. From the look of this trailer, she’s really kicked it off in full force and I would be heartbroken not to see the rest of that film. It already takes a [...]

Letters of Note: Sell Your Heart

I follow @LettersofNote on Twitter because I find reading original letters, such as the letter of a soldier in Vietnam written on the day that Saigon fell or the last letter of Marie Antionette a fascinating look into history and humanity through original sources. And sometimes the letters are inspirational, such as today’s letter from [...]

So You Think You Can Write & Genre-switching

This is another one of those mish-mash posts where my mind wanders to a couple of different things, but I hope in the end has some coherent point. First of all, Harlequin’s SYTYCW contest is going global. It kicks off this September and if you’ve wanted to write for Harlequin, here’s a chance for you [...]

Weekend booksigning at Rose’s

I had a fun afternoon at Rose’s Bookhouse signing books with historical romance author Charlotte Hubbard/Naomi King and urban fantasy author Kasey Mackenzie. I’m ashamed to say I have more pictures of the bookstore kitty than anything else. I also had a chance to pick up some new board books for the twinsies!

Upcoming events & odds and ends

I’m feeling happy this morning and am having Scottish tea with milk and homemade blueberry scones. I was inspired, by all things, by Elizabeth Hoyt’s Thief of Shadows. I just finished the book and I have two thoughts 1) Dude, the hero is a masked avenger who leaps about the rooftops of the slums and [...]

Memory Game: What I’ve Been Reading

I was enamored of the little memory game they had on the Summer Sizzling Reads Party at The Romance Reviews (click on over for some fun trivia and chances to win free books!) So I had some fun with it and found the javascript to create my own version using some lovely book covers. So [...]