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Free Love Has No Boundaries story available on Goodreads!

The reveal day is here! You may have read my previous posts about my Love Has No Boundaries story, and you may have seen the mock-up cover with no title. The rules of the event dictated that I keep the title and names of the main characters secret until the story was posted. Those rules were really hard to follow, but somehow I manged. And now, finally, I can do the big reveal!

The story title is Merger of Equals and it features Ken and Jordy, two young men who have lived though more than the...

Thank you!

Thanks so much for making my defeat of DOMA e-book giveaway a big success! I kept the coupon code open a day longer and it looks like quite a few of you were able to take advantage of it, which is awesome! Happy reading!

And while I shared the books with absolutely no strings attached, should you find yourself enjoying them and wanting to spread the word by leaving a review at your favorite reader site or blog, I would be even more thrilled!

And while the giveaway is now over, I have a new fr...

Celebrate the end of #DOMA with free e-books!

June 26 was a wonderful day in US history - a day when a majority of Supreme Court Justices decided that Congress had no right to deprive certain Americans of the rights freely afforded to others for absolutely no good reason other than blind bigotry. After today, legally married gay and lesbian couples in this country will receive exactly the same treatment from the federal government as legally married straight couples. It's not a complete step towards total equality, since there are stil...

Back to reality

Back from vacation and back to work, although not quite back in the author saddle. You know how it is. You get back from vacation absolutely exhausted and real life is just waiting to pounce and suck you back into the vortex. My daytime job is as crazy as ever and by the time I get home and do what I need to do around the house I'm so exhausted I barely have the energy to read or watch TV. Monday I fell asleep in front of the television at 8:30 (almost unheard of for a night own like me who...

I'm going to Scotland!

Photo credit: hotblack from morguefile.com It feels like forever since I've taken a vacation. In reality, it's only been six months, but it's been a super hectic and stressful six months and my husband and I are overdue for a little time away from the daily grind. So we're off. We're leaving today on a week-long trip to the UK. We'll stay in London long enough to see one theater production and then we'll take a train to Edinburgh and the tour more of Scotland, including a trip...

Reality as entertainment? Maybe not so much in books.

Tune in to network TV or even basic cable these days and you're bound to see at least one "Reality TV" show. Granted, most of the popular shows take the form of competitions, be it singing, dancing, designing or cooking, but a healthy number also claim to explore some slices of real life. We get glimpses into the lives of not only celebrities and faux celebrities (like the real housewives of fill-in-the-blank) but also survivalists, fishermen, loggers and ice road truckers. With all that "rea...

Eureka! (I finally figured out e-book file conversions)

Let me preface this post with a statement that I am just about the least "techy" person on the planet. COmputers pretty much scare me as does HTML code.

Having said that, while it stilltook me an embarrassingly long amount of time, after spending hours of my weekend reformatting files and previewing them in different e-reader previewers, I'm proud to say that I think I finally got it! This weekend I manged to get one file formatted for uploading to KDP, another file formatted for uploading to...

Handle with Care available on Smashwords

Thanks so much to everyone who voted either here or on Goodreads or via Twitter on the cover for Handle With Care. The votes were unanimous in favor of the snowball fight cover, so I decided to go with popular opinion and make a change :)

The new Amazon version is in review and will hopefully be updated tomorrow. In the meantime, the version with the previous cover is still available.

Of course, the whole reason for contemplating a change was my intent to post the story on Smashwords, which I...

Cover Reboot Opinions Needed

As I posted yesterday, Lakeside Reunionis now available for purchase in many different e-book formats on Smashwords. Now I'd like to do the same with Handle With Care. But since this gives me a chance to refresh the book, I started wondering if perhaps it wasn't also time to refresh the cover.

It's not that I don't like the original cover, it's just that sometimes changing things up feels kinda good. But, like I said, I'm not 100% sure yet. So I thought I'd post the choices here and see if any...

Lakeside Reunion available on Smashwords!

If you wanted to read Lakeside Reunion but prefer to read on a reader other than kindle or to buy books from someone other than Amazon, you can now purchase Lakeside Reunion in many different formats at Smashwords. The introductory price is a super low $0.99. Enjoy!
The book page to sample or purchase Lakeside Reunion is: http://smashwords.com/b/323029