When Elizabeth Gilbert had to sit down and write the next book after Eat, Pray, Love, (which is, <gasp> ten years old this year), she knew she would never top the success of the previous mega-best-selling title. But she’s a writer. So she wrote another book. While I can’t claim to have had the same huge […]
Book 6 of the Scandalous Scions series now available for pre-order on Amazon, too. Read More »
Image credits: Adas Meliauskas Depending on where you are in the world, we’re coming into Cherry Blossom season in a few weeks, which is generally around April in the northern hemisphere, but earlier in warmer climates. Cherry blossoms are associated strongly with Japan, but the trees grow everywhere. This astonishing cherry blossom canopy (above)
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Seven years ago today, on March 11, 2011, I “relaunched” my blog, to mark the release of my very first indie book, Blood Knot. I’ve been writing blog posts ever since, with just the odd short break here and there to give myself some downtime. But that wasn’t the first day this site was launched. In actual
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Law of Attraction, the fifth book in the Scandalous Scions series was released last Thursday in print and ebook. I’m having so much fun with this series! Most of the fun is in the research, for which I geek out. But there’s also fun writing it and putting people through hell and back! Here’s a few juicy
New Historical Victorian Romance now out! Read More »
Blood Knot was the very first book I indie published, on March 11, 2011, which is very nearly exactly seven years ago. Seven years isn’t a lot of time in the grand scheme of things, but the indie publishing world has evolved and re-invented itself a dozen times since then. The cover I had for
You Can’t Judge By the Book’s Cover Anymore — here’s why. Read More »
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This weird little factoid made me pause: Abraham Lincoln is in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, because he only lost once in over 300 matches. Wow. Commenting as a non-American, I have to say that is not the usual image of Abraham Lincoln that seeps across the national borders. The man clearly had dimensions.
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The sixth book in the Scandalous Scions historical romance series comes out on May 31, 2018 and is now available for pre-order. The cover is by Dar Albert of Wicked Smart Designs. Bridget’s downfall at the hands of a duke forces Will to save her. Lady Bridget is determined to marry well, to a man not
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The Hotel des Indes, Batavia, during WWII. A white hotel on a tropical island, in a time of war. Does that remind you of anything?* _____ By Tropenmuseum, part of the National Museum of World Cultures, CC BY-SA 3.0.On this day in 1942, the Japanese Imperial Army captured Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East
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Western Australian beaches look nothing like this. The beaches I grew up beside were also full of salt bushes and sandy loam, stunted, windblown shrubs and salt. But they weren’t pretty and manicured–not at all. I only have the one photo here, but you should check out all the other photos you can find in
Now, THIS is a beach! Read More »