It's Research, I Swear - Part 1
If you've followed me for any length of time, you will know I am a huge fan of research. Honestly, I think it's one of the reasons I chose to focus on historical romance. I love to learn, and being an author of historical fiction has given me so many opportunities to pick up interesting tidbits -- such as the…
Banned Books Week
The books the world calls immoral are the books that show the world it's own shame. ~ Oscar Wilde Happy Wednesday, Friends! I found this gem by Oscar Wilde and thought is was perfect for this week. You see, this is Banned Books Week. I wouldn't necessarily call it a celebration, but more of a campaign of awareness. The calendar…
My Intro to Romance
Someone asked me recently what the first romance novel I read was. I had to think back on it because there is a memory floating around in my head about it. I must have been about 10 years old and was scrambling around under my parent's bed looking for a book. It wasn't an unusual occurrence, as my mother frequently…
I Get By
So many times I hear people say how writing is a solitary business. Pop culture has perpetuated the myth of the isolated writer in his barren office, hunched over a typewriter, a combination of alcohol, coffee and cigarette butts strewn across the desk. Even the X-Files took a turn at the lone writer stereotype in its episode Milagro, albeit with…
May Photo Challenge
If there is one thing I love more than writing, it is taking pictures. I inherited that from my mother who has been torturing Dearest Sister and I by dressing us in fancy clothes and posing us in odd places ever since we were wee little bebbies. There was this one time I was made to sit in a Cabbage Patch…