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Meet 2016 Golden Heart Finalist Elizabeth King!

Today we’re holding a special SATURDAY blog session to introduce you to one of the Mermaids who lives in the Southern Hemisphere: the lovely Elizabeth King, 2016 Golden Heart Double Finalist in Historical Romance with (the wonderfully titled!!) THE EARL AND THE PUSSYCAT and TAMING THE EARL!!

Elizabeth spends both her days and nights writing. A tax lawyer by trade, she currently works for a legal publishing firm writing tax law books during the day. At night, she puts the tax law away and turn...

Fangirl Friday – June 16

Happy Friday Everyone! It’s big weekend for Dad’s with Father’s Day Sunday. Hmmm…how to spoilthe men in our lives???Perhaps a book would be a better gift (anything would be a better gift!).

Hee! Hee! Now on to the seriously awesome Ruby sales and releases! Elizabeth Langston’s book released this week! Wish You Were Here Book 3 of the I Wish Series

She can’t forget what she’s lost. He shows her there’s more to be found.

Months after the loss of her twin, Sara Tucker is still struggling to rec...

Meet 2016 Golden Heart Finalist Tracy Brody!

Today we’re welcoming another Mermaid, Tracy Brody, already a Golden Heart winner last year, who’s a DOUBLE finalist this year, in two different categories!!

Tracy Brody lives in North Carolina with her husband and teenage daughter and has a son that shows up for a few weeks between college semesters and internships to let her feed him and do his laundry.

Though she followed her father’s advice and studied business, she continued to indulge her creative side with various crafts and scrapbooki...

Meet 2016 Golden Heart Finalist McCall Hoyle!

Today we’re welcoming one of the YA Mermaids, McCall Hoyle, who won a Golden Heart two years ago, and whose manuscript THE OTHER CHEEK is a 2016 nominee in the Young Adult Romance category.

McCall Hoyle writes honest YA novels about friendship, first love, and girls finding the strength to overcome great challenges. Her first novel, THE THING WITH FEATHERS, won the YA category in 2014. It releases in September 2017 from Blink/HarperCollins. When she’s not reading or writing, she’s spending ti...

Meet 2016 Golden Heart Finalist Susanna Malcolm!

Today we’re welcoming another Mermaid, Susanna Malcolm, whose manuscript BESOTTED WITH THE VISCOUNT is a 2016 Golden Heart Finalist in Historical Romance!

Susanna Malcolm has been reading romance since she was far too young to be doing so. Her head is filled largely with a mishmash of historical romance, Simpsons and Buffy references, which unsurprisingly is of no practical use to anyone. She lives near Chicago with her family.

Here’s a blurb for BESOTTED WITH THE VISCOUNT:

Lord Gideon Birch,...

Fangirl Friday

You’ve made it through another week! Woot! Happy Friday! Time to grab your favorite beverage, find a shady spot (or an inside, air-conditioned spot) that’s comfy, and crack open a new book. Ahhhhh….

And today Bev Petterson’s romance, Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash,is FREE! And it is award winning!AWARDS: Book Buyers Best Finalist, National Readers’ Choice Award Finalist, Heart of Excellence Readers’ Choice Award Finalist, Laurel Wreath Award Finalist, Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award Win...

Meet 2016 Golden Heart Finalist Denny S. Bryce!

Today we’re welcoming another Mermaid, the lovely Denny S. Bryce, finalist for Best Historical Romance in the 2016 RWA Golden Heart with her manuscript WILD WOMEN AND THE BLUES, set in Chicago in the Black Belt in 1925.

Denny, who won the 2014 Golden Heart in Romantic Suspense for CHASING DAMN, writes romantic suspense (contemporary, paranormal, and historical) and historical fiction. She also is a regular contributor to Happy Ever After USA Today. She writes monthly columns about fan fiction...

Taming the Mental Chatter

Hello! So…what’s on your mind? Considering that the brain generates 50,000 – 70,000 thoughts per day (or 35-48 thoughts per minute), I’m betting there’s quite a bit crossing through your mind right now. Whew, that’s a lot of mental traffic!

And yet, we are constantly trying to focus. Whether it is creating a strategy to manage evening kid activities, the presentation for the company VP, or the witty dialogue in our book’s pinnacle scene, we need to wade through the chatter clogging our brains...

Meet 2016 Golden Heart Finalist Layla Reyne!!

Today we’re welcoming another Mermaid, Layla Reyne, a 2016 Golden Heart finalist in Romantic Suspense with her manuscript FOUR TRAGEDIES.

Attorney by day, writer by night, Layla Reyne was raised in North Carolina and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her scientist husband and three smush-faced dogs. Growing up surrounded by generations of southern storytellers and at the knee of her soap opera loving grandparents, she began writing at an early age. Now writing romantic susp...

Ruby Release – DANGEROUS BOYS Anthology

Life’s Too Short – Write a Novella

Have you noticed how popular novellas are lately? I totally get why. Writers like me, who take anywhere from six to twelve months to write a full novel, can get a novella written and published in a fraction of that time.For readers, a short, satisfying story can be devoured in a sitting or two. And that’s terrific for the chronically time-poor.When I was asked to join forces with four dangerous Australian/New Zealand writers for the DANGEROUS BOYS YA e-novel...