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Believing the impossible (or, what happens when you make the USA Today bestseller list)
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." -- The White Queen, Through the Looking Glass When I started writing Playing the Game (Neighborly Affection #1) on April 1, 2012, I thought the date was a pretty good joke, because I was...
One wild, unexpected weekend and a Neighborly Affection update
Thanks, Jay. I'll take it from here. Wow. You all shifted my world on Friday, and the aftershocks are rumbling through Monday, too. You propelled Playing the Game (Neighborly Affection #1) to No. 13 in Amazon's Kindle Store over the weekend. I couldn't have imagined...
Pick up Playing the Game for 99 cents
I'd wager this is the best deal Lyrical/Kensington is ever going to offer -- readers can start the Neighborly Affection series for just 99 cents from May 13 through May 27. That's less than a buck for a full-length novel and hours of fun with Henry, Alice, and Jay. If...
3 times the writing life exceeded expectations
You guys. Seriously, you guys. You know I find writing blog posts exponentially harder than writing novels, right? Because so often I'm trying to convey gratitude for unexpected blessings that floor me. (Literally floor me, like lying on my back on the living room...
Celebrating Menage Month with AReCafe
The cafe branch of All Romance eBooks is celebrating Menage Month with a slew of posts from menage writers and bloggers about what inspires their stories, and today I'm lucky enough to be one of the posters. 🙂 I'm sharing about the high expectations we have for...
Going beyond romance (and beyond the pages)
I'm visiting with Lisabet Sarai over at her Beyond Romance blog to talk about the importance of giving characters real character. The pages can only contain the crafted narrative of their lives; just like the rest of us, they have bits and pieces that don't make the...
