Earlier this month, I spent 13 days in California! I was born and raised in southern California. Riverside, to be exact. And though I've lived in Dallas for twenty-eight years, I return to CA frequently to spend time with my family there. This trip had a dual purpose. I went to celebrate my mom's birthday and to enjoy my daughter's spring break. The birthday party came first. To mark my … [Read more...]

Dani Pettrey and I will be hitting the Texas highways this April! I just released Uneasy Street this month and Dani's Two Seconds Too Late will come out in April. We wanted to do something special to celebrate and so we're baking up a book tour. :) To make things even sweeter, our writer friends Natalie Walters and Lynne Gentry will be joining us at some of the locations! Here's our … [Read more...]

My inspiration for my current series was this…  Three brothers. Two of them—Jeremiah and Jude--raised beneath the shadow of the scandal their wealthy, famous parents created before their birth. Then there’s Max, the housekeeper’s son, the one Jeremiah and Jude viewed as a friend while all three were growing up on the same property in Maine. When the boys were teenagers, they (and everyone … [Read more...]

In all my years of writing and publishing books, I've never been invited to give a TV interview. Until now! Texas Today is a local lifestyle show that airs on NBC here in Dallas/Fort Worth. One of their producers reached out and asked me to visit and chat about the topic of balancing motherhood and writing. It was clear that he'd found inspiration for the segment in this post that I shared on … [Read more...]