When Romance Happens In Real Life
It’s been a busy week and I think my brain is about to explode. Books 1 & 2 are up for sale and Book 3 is in the queue waiting to be released into the wilds of the internet. I’m doing the final edits and formatting for book 4 while books 5 & 6 are …
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Suddenly the world is spinning fast. After this past year of changing my life around, I finally gathered the courage to press upload and send my word-babies out into the ether. Book Two in my Haythen Construction series is available for sale and Book Three will be available on Sunday, July 25, 2021. (Fun fact, …
Read MoreAfter going cross-eyed editing this series, Haythen Construction Book One, Racing Hearts is finally up for sale. I know how frustrating it is to read a book, be teased about the next book in the series and have it not available to immediately dive into. So… Book Two, Rugby Relationships will be out this weekend, on …
Read MoreMy new phone arrived on Monday and I’m super excited about it. My old one was slowly becoming toast and I needed something reliable to keep up with my imagination. I’ve been playing with speech to text for story writing. Let me tell you, it’s a challenge. I usually feel like a three-year-old hopped up …
Read MoreIf you watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you may recall a scene where she’d just saved the world (again) and she told Giles how badly her brain was fried. Giles started poetically waxing on about the events that had just occurred and Buffy looked at him and repeated, “Fire bad, tree pretty.” That’s how …
Read MoreI’m going to geek out here for a minute, so I’ll beg your indulgence. I’ve been going cross-eyed while editing the Haythen Construction Series. My brain definitely leans toward story-telling and away from things like apostrophes and not overusing my ‘buts’. Seriously, the number of wayward apostrophes when I type is unreal. Some day I’ll …
Read MoreI live with my husband near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I’ve adopted his family as my own and manage to have (for the most part) avoided being the evil step-mother. Not so hard, since his kids are grown with families of their own. Through the pandemic, I started writing again. It had always been my …
Read MoreAs I get ready to publish for the first time in almost a decade, I realize much has changed. All of the popular novelists do newsletters and blogs and interact on social media. These were new, unexplored and wild frontiers last time I tried to do this… and I do want to be one of …
Read MoreOn a writers’ forum, someone posed the question. “Where do your story ideas come from?” For me, it’s largely environmental. I pull characters and situations/plots from real life. I may hear a snippet of conversation while waiting in line for a cup of coffee, or I see someone and wind a story around them. Example: …
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