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March 5, 2011
Thin and thick skin
I found it interesting to be greeted with this little warning on Goodreads today which I actually had to "click to agree" with. Have to admit, I was pretty surprised this needed to be stated in such a blatant manner — across the board to all authors. But I guess there have been some problems. [...]
March 2, 2011
March release – CONTEST
How is it March already? I mean, seriously!?!? March means that my latest Harlequin Blaze, INEVITABLE, is out in the wilds. I just found out yesterday that it is also an audio book available on Audible.com! All three of my Blazes have been lucky enough to be given the audio treatment so I'm very grateful [...]
February 20, 2011
HOW I WRITE – figuring out character motivation
I thought I'd share a little bit on my writing process. I recently did a workshop for my local RWA chapter (Toronto Romance Writers, woot!) and spoke a bit about how I plot books out. Saying it out loud made it sound kind of complicated, and my process is just that, I guess, but it's [...]
January 31, 2011
Nightshade is out tomorrow! Contest!
The day is finally here! My darker vampire urban fantasy romance, NIGHTSHADE, is out tomorrow! (although I've already seen it and the PRIMAL anthology — which continues Jill and Declan's story in the novella "Bleeding Heart" — on the shelves of Chapters here in Canada). Since I'm going to be at Bitten by Books tomorrow [...]
January 21, 2011
Wrapping up and starting anew
There are only ten days until my new release — my darker paranormal, urban fantasy, horror-esque romance with vampires and dhampyrs and women who are in the Wrong Place At The Wrong Time, NIGHTSHADE is released! I feel like February 2011 has been rocketing toward me at light speed for some time now. Not only [...]
December 29, 2010
League Update
I'm a member of the League of Reluctant Adults — a fabulous group of urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors. While I haven't been very active on the blog lately I still value being a part of this great group of writers. Jackie Kessler, author of the amazing Hell on Earth series, Whedonverse writer, and [...]
December 28, 2010
My other true love
I'm not really making any new year's resolutions this year. For writing, I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing — listen to both my muse and my gut and try to write the best books I can that I hope my wonderful readers will enjoy. The new thing I do want to do in [...]
December 27, 2010
Buh-bye 2010
Only a few days left of this year. Wow, it seemed to go really fast. Like, REALLY fast. While I'm in no hurry for 2011 to get here (that of my *cough* 40th *cough* birthday in February. *SCREAM* No, really, I'm making my peace with it. PEACE. WITH. IT. AHH!!), but 2010 has definitely been [...]
December 10, 2010
How is it December already?
So, it's apparently December. Yes, this is news to me too. What have I been up to, you ask? Well, let me tell you…. Yesterday I hit page 220 of my THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC first draft, a nice healthy number. I usually aim for about 350 manuscript pages. That's roughly 85K or so. Anyway, [...]
November 18, 2010
Nightshade ARC
A few appearances on the web this week you should check out: I'm giving away the winner's choice of either Something Wicked or Touch and Go to a commenter at Tote Bags n Blogs. Tonight's the deadline for that! And don't forget, there's still time to bid on a one-of-a-kind marked up copy of Demon [...]
