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Nothing Is Carved In Stone: Revising A Published Manuscript

I am one of those authors who read reviews. I’m just so curious about what people think of the story I created. The problem is that it’s considered poor etiquette to reply to a reviewer, and it’s impossible to address their concerns in a revised version. Except it isn’t. Here's the story of how and why I revised my novella, Seducing the Single Lady

Now Available! The Bad Boy Billionaire: What a Girl Wants

Their romance started by accident, and continued in spite of their best efforts. And now…happily ever after is almost in reach for Jane and Duke. The third installment of a sexy, whirlwind romance about a modern day heroine writing historical romance novels based on her romantic misadventures with the bad boy billionaire.   Jane Sparks had […]

Excerpt: What a Wallflower Wants

Miss Prudence Merryweather Payton has escaped a highway robbery and is trudging toward the nearest town, alone and dangerously unchaperoned when the oh-so dashing Lord Castleton happens upon her…

FREE BOOK! The Bad Boy Billionaire’s Wicked Arrangement

Fabulous news! For one week only, The Bad Boy Billionaire's Wicked Arrangement is FREE! Now is the perfect time to make the acquaintance of Duke Austen, the bad boy billionaire, and Jane Sparks, a modern day girl writing historical romances based on her own love life. When a prank post appears on Facebook announcing their engagement, there is just one thing to do: play along and try not to fall in love...

Fact & Fiction in the Bad Boy Billionaire Books

Some readers have noticed that I am a romance writer living in NYC married to a tech entrepreneur and my new series happens to be about a romance writer living in NYC dating a tech entrepreneur. Some readers have wondered how much I might have drawn from my real life. Here's the truth...

ARCS for What a Wallflower Wants are now available!

If you’re a qualified reviewer or blogger, check out an advanced copy of my next book (and possibly my best!) and write a review!

The Lovely Bloom of the Wallflower from Julia Quinn, Lisa Kleypas, and More!

You know what they say: it’s always the quiet ones. It’s always the quiet ones that surprise everyone with a dramatic, shocking transformation. That’s why so many readers—myself included—love a good wallflower romance.

Now available for your reading pleasure: Wallflower Gone Wild!

Dear readers, rejoice! Wallflower Gone Wild is now available. I'm so excited for everyone to read about Lady Olivia and Phinn’s romance, which is a sweet and hysterical series of disasters that somehow all lead to true love.

Excerpt: The Bad Boy Billionaire: What a Girl Wants

Things are getting complicated--and dramatic--for Jane and Duke in this stunning conclusion to their romance.

Ten Tiny Sneak Peeks at Wallflower Gone Wild

With the 100th anniversary of Lady Penelope’s Finishing School for Young Ladies fast approaching, three wallflowers are resorting to desperate, drastic, and occasionally disastrous methods for finding husbands rather than be the only unwed girls in the history of the school. Well…unless one finds themselves pressured to wed  a man known as “The Mad Baron” who […]