I have an odd obsession with dish towels. For some reason they bring me joy, so in deciding on a Pinterest challenge, DIY Holiday tea towels were an easy choice. Or so I thought. Seeing as I have three children aged four and under, I should know that DIY…
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The perfect place for Jane Austen addicts I’ve lived a 20 minute train ride away from Bath since 1997. I love Jane Austen and I write Regency romances. Yet, never once have I been to the Jane Austen Festival that takes place in Bath every September. Image-…
Last year I traveled to Peru and stopped in Puerto Maldonado, which is the gateway to the southern Amazon jungle. In order to reach the hotel, we had to take a boat across the Madre de Dios River. A short walk through the Amazon jungle and we reached…
For my last birthday, my husband outdid himself. In fact, he may have set a standard he can never meet again. He surprised me with tickets to an event at a biker/metal bar in Dallas. I didn’t have any idea what was happening until the guy…
The hubby and I recently took a sushi-making class. It was while we were in Mexico, but none the less, still authentic. Sushi has always been a staple for our date nights. We’ve even made sushi at home several times, but we never knew what we were doing.…
When I began outlining Maybe Someone Like You, the female protagonist, Katie Capwell, was drawn to a dance studio where she would learn ballroom dancing from a sexy dance instructor. (Yes, I still love the movie, Dirty Dancing!) But as I started writing, I found myself struggling…
It was a bucket list trip I’d dreamed about since I was a kid. My excitement was as high as my anxiety—what if the trip was amazing? What if it was awful? What if it was blah? I had no idea what to expect when my husband and…
I was born in the nineteen-eighties which, according to some, makes me a Millennial. We get a bad rap, what with being responsible for the downfall of napkins, and diamonds, and the answering of phones. Oh, we also eat too much avocado toast…which is, apparently, why we can’t afford…
Prior to my romance writing career, I worked in theater. Largely professional regional theater in Wisconsin. It was there I got a taste for storytelling. I was a dancer… Peter Pan—I’m the Mohawk on the bottom. an actress… Just of few of the plays in which…
How to make something stunning with very little skill. Well, you need to be able to manipulate a needle, but it doesn’t get much harder than that. How did my latest hobby begin? Well, it started with a visit to an ethnic crafts shop in Norfolk, England. I saw…