A Little Thing Called Connectivity…

When the idea for Connectivity first sprang into my head while watching Sherlock last spring, I never dreamed it would lead me where I am today.

It started out as any other story idea: I saw a hero, William Cumberland. Dashing. Dark-haired. British. Brilliant. Social media mogul. As fast as I could type these notes into my Blackberry, his image kept coming to me. Emotionally closed off, no time for relationships he didn’t want or didn’t need…until he met Mary-Kate Grant, the spirited American redhead who was only driven by her passion for her career…until she met William.

I had never seen characters so clearly before. I sketched the whole story from beginning to end, typing out page after detailed page of notes. And as I was doing it, I knew I had something special with William and MK. Sure, I had written many other stories, all stashed in big envelopes under my bed. But I could feel something magical was happening at the keyboard when I began to tell their story. The name of William’s social media site is Connectivity (for the connections people could make there) but there was also a strong connection forming between William and MK–another form of connectivity, if you will.

And I felt the connectivity between myself and this story–I couldn’t stop writing it, and when I wasn’t writing, I was thinking about when I could write it and reconnect with it. Something new formed in me as a writer with William and MK. I had a new confidence, a belief that other people would fall in love with these characters and this story as much as I did.

So I let some people read it, and their feedback confirmed the feeling I had when I was lost in the story. This story was fun, it was special, and readers wanted to see this couple find each other on this journey. And this is the book that I sold to Soul Mate Publishing this past spring.

And with the launch of this website, and this blog, I have a whole new journey as an author in front of me. Connectivity will be published on October 23. Waiting For Prince Harry is coming in 2014, as well as a romantic comedy in the New Adult genre.

All this is all thanks to a little thing called Connectivity.