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Blog Tour: My Writing Process

Today is Blog Tour Day. This blog tour is where writers and authors answer questions about their writing process. My friend Lana Williams, who writes wonderful historical romances, posted hers last week. You can check out her writing process here: Love Historicals 
I hope you enjoy this peak into my process and I’d love to hear your comments and questions-please add those at the bottom!
1)  What am I working on?Right now I’m writing the sequel to my women's fiction novel,  The Sh...

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Check it out FAST! Only 2 days to get The Shell Keeper for 99 cents! Just missed the boat?! Then you've got two more days to get it for $1.99 and after that, two more days at $2.99...then it's back to it's original price.

These Kindle Countdowns keep readers hopping, but they are a great way to stock up on some fun summer reads. Here's the link: CLICK HERE! and please be sure to leave a review after you've read it. I LOVE hearing from my readers. 
So, you wonder, why should I get on board...

What To Read?!?

You know the feeling. You come at last to the end of a wonderful book. The finale is satisfying, but you have that empty feeling...your friends are gone, living happily on in their own alternate universe without you. The only cure is to find a new universe to jump into and join in the fun-but which one? Assuming you're not making your way through a sequel, how do you find a new book to read that's a wonderful as the last?

Sure, sometimes you already have a book in your sites, but what if you'v...

Spammers Are Endlessly Entertaining For Writers!

So...I received an 'urgent' email from my 'cousin' in Wisconsin. She was stuck in (the) Ukraine and needed my help. Or, more accurately, my money. Yeah, well, I gotta wonder just how stupid these Eastern European scammers think Americans are. I guess some of them are gullible, or what I like to think of as too kind-hearted because they wouldn't keep trying this stuff if they didn't get nibbles-and cash.

Anyway, before I hit the tab to alert my service about the obviously deceptive email, I jus...

Are Writers the Demi-Gods of Literature?!

Over the holidays I had a bad case of 'no-time-to-write'. It's understandable and excusable for all of us. I had a long list of house guests to make comfortable, cookies to bake, turkeys to stuff. Not to mention my 'day job'. 
But the problem with no-time-to-write-itis is that it can go viral and, if you don't watch out, turn fatal! Not to you...but to your characters. That's what kicked me back into gear. I had one of those paradigm shift moments and suddenly saw my characters in the boo...

Short and Sweet Review: Unraveling Secrets by Lana Williams

As a huge fan of Lana William’s Vengeance Trilogy I was sorry to see that series end, but delighted to read the first installment in her new Secret Trilogy! Set in Victorian England, Unraveling Secrets is a fast paced, suspenseful romance about Abigail Bradford, who is determined to protect her family from the man who murdered her father. The only problem is he’s supposed to already be dead-put to death for the crime.

But Abigail knows better, she’s seen him and now she’s worried they he may c...

Short and Sweet Review: Believe in Me by Lana Williams

Sir William is tasked with delivering Lady Cristiana to her new guardian, Bishop Duval. Though he’s initially anxious to be rid of his charge, feeling the commission beneath him, he soon finds himself attracted to the lady. Nevertheless, he’s befuddled and frustrated by her persistent efforts to foil his mission, combined with her strong dislike of the Bishop for reasons she holds secret.
Cristiana has good reason to distrust all connected with the Bishop, but she too begins to warm to Willia...

Blog Question: Were You a Tomboy or a Princess Growing Up?

One of the fun things about writing as the guest on someone
else’s blog is answering random questions that never occur to me when I’m
writing on my own blog. Sometimes I think these questions seem very off-topic,
considering readers are tuning in to find out about a favorite author or book. But
the more I read similar guest blogs by other authors, the more I appreciate the
random acquaintance that is formed.




Discovering something about an author’s childhood, their
favorite TV shows or...

Short and Sweet Review: Another Saturday Night and I Ain't Got No Body by Jennie Marts

Jennie Marts has written a delightful romantic mystery that left this reader hoping there might be a sequel! In Another Saturday Night And I Ain't Got No Body , Cassie's dating life is in the dumps and, while there's a gorgeous new guy, Jake, just next door, she can't get past the idea that he might have murdered her good friend, Walter!



That sort of thing puts a damper on desire, so Cassie gives in to her friends' plans to set up a series of blind dates for her. Only problem is most of the...

Short and Sweet Review: Beyond the Wood by Michael J. Roueche

Beyond the Wood by Michael J. Roueche




I’m not normally a fan of the Civil War era, either in
fiction or ‘non’. So, though I’d heard this was a good read, I only dug into it
recently. Imagine my delight that is was such an engaging story!






A word of advice to readers--persist through the first,
short introductory pages set in contemporary times; this is not your story. It’s
coming, and you won’t return to the present for more than a few pages from this
point on.




My hesitation with...