Grab These Before They Come Off Permafree. For the longest time, I have had four of my commercially released novels listed for free at the bookseller sites — Amazon, B&N, Kobo, iTunes, etc, and also my own site. As of April 1, those books will be coming off the perma-free list and reverting to their […]
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A movie filmed *entirely* on computer screens Twenty years ago, the 2018 movie Searching couldn’t have been even imagined, let alone filmed. We tripped over the movie recently and were intrigued enough by the trailer to rent it. The trailer, by the way, doesn’t hint about the true nature of the movie, unless you’re really
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Hot Spring Romance Giveaway This giveaway will interest those of you who like my menage novels. Definitely on the steamier side! Hot Spring Romance Giveaway Cheers, [fusion_separator style_type=”shadow” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” sep_color=”#000000″ top_margin=”” bottom_margin=”” border_size=”” icon=”” icon_circle=”” icon_circle_color=”” width=”” alignment=”center” /] . Take my stories on a test run. 4 full novels free.
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Military Careers When Soldiers Wore Swords. We love to adore the red-coated soldiers parading through our historical romances — just think of Rupert Friend in Pride & Prejudice, or the dashing military friends in Four Feathers. But life in the military wasn’t fun. Not even for the officers. Prepare to learn some not so romantic facts
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Did that title make you blink? The root word for equinoctial is equinox…which is today. It is the vernal equinox, and from now on, the days will have more sunlight hours than night hours in them. Which is kinda coincidental…but perhaps not. The equinox and solstices play a role in my King Arthur series, Once
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Last Monday I woke up with a pain in the side of my back, that stabbed sharply when I breathed heavily. It hurt to raise my arm. As I had woken with it, I figured I’d slept funny, stressed a muscle or tendon, and that the pain would go away after a while. It got
International Excuse To Eat Pie Day Actually, it really is Pi Day – a worldwide celebration of everything mathematical. As a self-confessed anal geek, I can’t let the day pass without a mention. Even if it is to urge you to grab some pie and spare a thought for how mathematics shapes the world we live
I’ve guested on a number of podcasts in the last few years, but they have been exclusively for writers, rather than readers. (Still, here’s the full list, if you’re curious). Finally, though, I was asked to guest on a podcast that was a) about romance novels and b) for *readers*, not writers. Sarah Williams, an Aussie
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How does an author build the story world and the series-long story arcs that make a series one you want to hang on to until the end? What are the types of series? And why is every author writing them, these days? Why do authors stop writing series? By reader request, this week we’ll look at some of the
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I have been a shift leader at a Starbucks store, and I’ve trained baristas. I’ve learned how to “taste” coffee, and I figured I was pretty knowledgeable about coffee. We buy organic, free trade beans, grind them ourselves as we need them, and never put them in the freezer. Plus, we only buy the coffee a
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