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Blog postNow rescheduled for Oct. 13, 2021, the 9th Annual Gifting Grandmas’ Authors’ Luncheon
I’m excited and gratified to share that I’ve been invited to speak at the Gifting Grandmas’ Authors’ Luncheon benefiting the Sacramento Children’s Home Crisis Nursery. This is a fantastic opportunity to support an organization I believe in, and to share my thoughts on writing and reading with a room full of people who also love books.
It’s truly an honor, and I hope to not only be an interest -
Blog postI feel like many authors would agree that dialogue is both a joy and a little bit of a nuisance to write. Conversations are such critical elements in fiction, allowing the characters to meet, interact, develop, perform, discover and figure out. For all the incredibly eloquent descriptions we might pour onto a page, for all the telling we do in paragraph form, expressing action or thoughts or settings or appearances, what the characters talk about makes a story interesting, compelling, relatab
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Blog postAvailable now on Amazon! The suspenseful sequel to Spiders in a Dark Web is now available on Amazon Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and in paperback.
Dark Web of Deceit: A novel of suspense It’s been raining for weeks, delaying construction on Lola Bright and Peter Owen’s new home. After almost a year together, things are looking pretty sodden in their relationship, as well. Why is Peter so prickly and distant? When did she become jealous, and so full of doubts?
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Blog post“Pivoting” is one of those buzzwords you hear a lot lately, along with “new normal,” “reinventing” and “intentional”. They start to mean less the more you hear them, to the point that my partner and I snarkily joke how “intentional” we’re going to be about various things, like laundry or picking up the dog poop in the yard. I actually very much believe in the power of intentions and, I guess, being “intentional,” but it’s become jargon and that renders it somewhat empty.
I had a super -
Blog postThese are slow times in my marketing and writing, as I work through editing a manuscript and feel less than inspired to think of ways to publicize my work on social media or to set up new deals or promotions. Both inwardly (creatively) and outwardly (outreach to readers), I’m in a down cycle.
Editing always tends to slow things down for me; it’s an important and ultimately gratifying slog, but a slog all the same. The better I get at editing, the longer it takes, and the better the en -
Blog post2020 has been a lot of things… heartbreaking and shattering, upsetting and overwhelming, scary and confusing, inspirational and innovative and hopeful… giving us much to worry about and to mourn, many achievements to celebrate and embrace, and many things we’re glad to leave behind.
As the year winds down and our winter officially begins, for anyone who’d like to settle in on the couch under a blanket with a nice whiskey-laden nog (or hot cocoa, or tea, or wine, or possibly just whisk -
Blog postIt’s been an incredibly strange time for all of us, strange and complicated and challenging, defined by fear, uncertainty, isolation, unity, unexpected blessings and unplanned burdens. In the first month or so of shelter in place, I found it difficult to get my scattered thoughts down in my journal, much less to work on any new fiction projects. One day I had a wild few hours of inspiration, several pages’ worth, and then it petered out. I have a major revision waiting on my latest book draft
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Blog postAvailable now! Already finished season 3 of “Ozark” and looking for a new read to beat the isolation blues? Check out my newest binge-worthy romantic suspense, now available on Amazon Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and in paperback.
The Element of Truth Cal senior Sunny Quinn always trusts her instincts. So when she sees Des Merrick for the first time, and feels an immediate and intense connection with him, she believes it’s the real thing.
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Blog postToward the end of 2019, I got really productive and finished two first drafts, which was gratifying, and then started editing them, which is painstaking, and began to think about marketing, which is downright painful.
And now here I am, writing a post to remind myself why this part needs to happen.
After I came back from a trip to Honolulu last August, I started working on a sequel to my January 2019 release Spiders in a Dark Web. I had another story to tell about the characte -
Blog postThere’s nothing like a good binge. We watched Season 3 of “Stranger Things” in about two days and it was glorious. But when I think of life’s most satisfying binges, reading has a slight edge over TV and movies, maybe because it existed for me long before Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, or even DVD box sets. For decades, if I wanted to curl up and really dive in, the options were limited to books.
#bingebythepool
I’d like to think that the books I write work as binge-by-the-poo
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