In 2015, I decided that I wanted to walk Scotland’s West Highland Way, a 96-mile trail that runs from just outside of Glasgow to Fort William, in, well, the west Highlands :). I’d been to that part of Scotland a few times before and knew how spectacular it was,…
Category: Behind the Book
When I’m forced out of my hobbit hole of introversion and end up at a party, I often get the question, “Where are you from?” I answer Buffalo because that’s where I was born, and where I lived until I went away to college. After college I…
I love history. I also love eerie places. And when the two come together? Bliss! One of the most eerie places I’ve ever visited is the abandoned gold mining town of Bodie in California. My husband and I didn’t set out to see Bodie. We were on our way…
For a few decades, in the 1970s and 1980s after the adoption of most of our current battery of vaccines, many western countries went through a honeymoon period of much lower rates of disease outbreaks. Small Pox was eliminated from the world, polio persisted only in impoverished countries far…
Whenever I can, I set my contemporary romances in Canada, because…well. Canada is beautiful. That makes it romantic. In Her Secret, His Surprise, Cass and Logan first meet at a conference in Ottawa, the capitol city of Canada. I used to work in Aerospace and Defense,…
Meet the Heroine Name: Natalie Holden Hair and eye and celeb doppelgänger: Blond, brown, Emily VanCamp from “Revenge” Profession: Food Chemist in the Sweets & Refreshments lab at Hershey Company Home base: Hershey, Pennsylvania… “The Sweetest Place on Earth” Kudos: After 3 years of hard work, was finally…
For a young girl from New Zealand, I don’t know when my love of all things Italian started. Maybe I do, on my visit trip to Italy, but I’m getting ahead of myself. We kiwi’s have a right of passage, what we call our BIG O.E. (overseas experience).…
I went on my first writing cruise at the beginning of December, 2018. I wasn’t sure how mixing a writing retreat and a cruise might work, but my husband and I both love cruising, so we decided to try it. It was fabulous! There were fifteen of us…
The first five books of the Blood of the Drakon series are set in the USA, but Drakon’s Tear heads overseas to Russia. Now I’ve never been there, so that meant one thing… The first part of the story is set in Moscow. It’s winter so…
Lenny Bradshaw is having a hard time. Her father went to prison for money laundering and she’s trying to hold her family and her charity together. via GIPHY Then Halsey Sherwood arrives to help. via GIPHY Lenny wouldn’t put Halsey out if he was on…