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Fall Newsletter 2024

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This is my first-ever newsletter and I’ve got a lot of news for you. So, let’s skip the preamble and just dive in! Because I’m super ambitious (arrogant), and want to end the year with three publications under my belt, I’m releasing what the political pundits might call an “October surprise!”

Speak of the Devil (10/15/24)Speak of the Devil: October 15th, 2024Preorder on AmazonAdd to Goodreads Tbr

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2021 New Release: (TRUST) FALLING FOR YOU

I had a lot of high-flying goals at the beginning of 2020, but you know the rest of the story. Like many romance writers, I was overwhelmed and bummed out. All my travel plans were canceled, Sweden bungled the whole pandemic response, and creating sexy things was… challenging.

But I managed to write something!! This novella is a little light on conflict, but it’s got lovely characters and a cute premise. The tropes: Enemies-to-Lovers, Workplace Romance, Opposites Attract, “Only One Cabin,” a...

Pitch Wars Mentor: Wish List

Pitch Wars is a mentoring program where published/agented authors, editors, or industry interns choose one writer each to spend three months revising their manuscript. It ends in February with an Agent Showcase, where agents can read a pitch/first page and can request to read more. You can learn more about it at www.pitchwars.org. 

Since Denise is in the US and Charish is in Sweden, we don’t get to hang out in person, but we’re pretty sure when we do, it will look like these photos. Look at u...

Work-In-Process Teaser: Jewel Heist

Dear Reader, I’m in the middle of writing my third book! The working title in my word files is “Jewel Heist” because I’m terrible at titles, lol. But I’ve got characters and a halfway decent plot, so that’s good enough for now. Let me introduce you to Celeste (prolific art thief) and Magnus (geology professor), former lovers who, after 10 years, are teaming up for one last heist. With the recent death of their mentor, Dr. Doris Grant, they’re left with a mysterious request in her last will...

I Can Still Save you, Robert

Previously publishing on The Motley News, September 6th, 2017.

As a Black female professor, I’ve often felt the pressure to perform better than my colleagues with little institutional support. I needed to be at diversity meetings, act as a psychologist to my students (even though that’s definitely not my job), and take care to ensure my lessons weren’t too “liberal” on a conservative campus. My students of color and I always seemed like we were on the other side of the door, trying to push...

Hearts on Hold (Feb 3rd)

Hearts on Hold

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What happens in the stacks stays in the stacks…

Professor Victoria Reese knows an uphill battle when she sees one. Convincing her narrow-minded colleagues at the elite Pembroke University to back a partnership with the local library is a fight she saw coming and already has a plan for. What she didn’t see coming? The wildly hot librarian who makes it clear books aren’t the only thing he’d like to handle.

When a tightly wound, sexy-as-hell professor proposes...

Black Don’t Craic Series: Part 2, Meeting Steven

*I published this piece for my other blog, The Motley News, on June 9th, 20 17

I talked to man who fishes on the Renvyle coast for lobster. Steven is a short but solidly built man, who’s wind-swept ruddy face broke into a million wrinkles when he gave a less-than-toothy grin. It really didn’t take a lot of effort to get him talking. I just wandered out to the front stoop of the pub to have a smoke. That’s all you need, really.

When he revealed he was a lobster fisherman, I used what I remembered of David...

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Black Don’t Craic Series: Part 1, Quick-Wit

*I published this piece for my other blog, The Motley News, on June 7th, 20 17

I’d like to think that I’m quick on my feet when it comes to witty repartee, but the Irish have me beat. I should have known better, of course. The Irish gift of gab is real and I’m so delighted that I can experience it for the next month. I’m a natural talker; I’ve been getting in trouble for excessive chattiness since I was a small child. I finally feel at home in Ireland, where the conversations keeps rolling like th...

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Being Black In Finland

*I published this piece for my other blog, The Motley News, on July 12th, 2016

I lay on the hotel bed, laptop propped on my belly, grading student papers. Ru Paul’s Drag Race is on in the background, a queen tells us about her withholding mother. I’m in Estonia and it’s still hard to imagine why. My husband, who is out scouting Tallinn alone, is having the time of his life. I, on the other hand, am still stuck in the surreal daze of: “I’ve just been to Finland, I took a ferry across the Baltic Sea fo...