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The History We Don’t Want To Hear

I’ve been working hard on the third book in my Montana Romance series, In Your Arms, this August. It’s been a challenge to write (as most books are), but if there’s one thing I love about it, it’s the characters. I particularly like my heroine, Lily Singer—or Singing Bird, as she was born. Yes, the […]

Sarah Sunshine

Okay, I’ll confess.  I attempted two different blog posts for today, but about halfway through writing each one they started to sound gloomy and whiney.  That’s the kind of week I’ve been having.  And frankly, no one wants to read about that.  But how about reading something much more fun and adorable for a Friday?  […]

2013 Book #24 – Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott

I never used to read writing craft books. I don’t know why. Maybe it was a combination of hubris and being afraid to see that I was doing everything wrong. Or maybe somewhere along the line I read one that was completely not the right book for me. Because there is such a thing as […]

A Brief Look at Women’s Underwear in the 19th Century

And yes, I realize that there are about a thousand reasons why that blog post title will get me in trouble. So over the weekend I was working on final revisions of my novella, Sarah Sunshine. Sarah Sunshine is book 2.5 in the Montana Romance series, and as such it takes place in the fictitious […]

Creativity: The Currency of the 21st Century

Did anyone else see that awesome Wil Weaton video that’s been making the rounds on Facbeook? It’s really cool. For those who missed it, in response to a new mother who asked if he had any words of advice for her infant daughter, Mr. Weaton proceeded to deliver an impassioned speech about what it means […]

2013 Book #23 – The Duchess War, by Courtney Milan

Yeah, this pretty much seals it. I’m a big fan of Courtney Milan. I read The Governess Affair a couple of months ago and absolutely loved it. Then I met Courtney in Atlanta during RWA nationals and found her to be a really nice, brilliantly intelligent person. So naturally I had her sign a copy […]

Is Blogging Dead?

Far and away, one of the best benefits of attending writer’s conferences is the fact that everyone is buzzing about the latest trends and up-and-coming developments in the writing world. It was at a writer’s conference that I heard the first stirrings of what would become the Indie Revolution, it’s where I heard about the […]

Historical Body Image

For my post today, I’d actually like to throw it over to what I wrote for the Seduced by History blog.  I’m over there today talking about Historical Body Image and posing the question “Are our romance novel heroines too skinny to be historically accurate?”   Come on over and take a look! http://www.heartsthroughhistory.com/h...

2013 Book #20 – Patient Zero, by Jonathan Maberry

Wow. It’s true. I mean, I always knew it, but it’s an entirely different thing to come face to face with something you know like this. It is possible for a book to be a really good, well-written, action-packed book and to still not be the right book for me. That would be Patient Zero, […]

The First King George

I’m loving all this excitement about the new future monarch in our midst! The future King George the seventh, I think it is. (I had heard some speculation that when Prince Charles takes the throne that he might take it as George VII, but that was when The King’s Speech came out and it may […]