Writing a Series Backwards Did you know I’m writing my two dragon shifter series backwards? I never would have thought so before trying this crazy experiment, but writing backwards has its advantages. Let me back up and explain… My latest release is The Rogue King, is the…
Category: Behind the Book
Liam Cruz has had plenty of time and opportunity to find love. As a heavy hitting all star for the MLB team The Nashville Slammers, a talented cook, and a self-professed family man, he is quite the catch. It isn’t until Isla Bennett walks into his bar, however, that…
I didn’t get to know the beauty of western Massachusetts until college. Born in eastern Mass, I moved with my family to Florida when I was only three, and I grew up on the untamed sandy flatlands of the Gulf Coast. Right before I started high school, we…
What songs do you feel? Scarlet Bain can’t be touched. She struggles with a form of autism that affects her senses. Music has become her escape. No, not her escape, her Utopia, where she can feel connected to something besides herself. When she longs to…
The first time my husband asked me on a date, he decided to do so in a loud bar where we could both hardly hear. He lead off with, “Do you like wine?” The answer at the time was a resounding NO. I found wine to be too sour.…
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,…
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,…