We stayed home for Thanksgiving weekend this year, so my Black Friday plans include: Sleeping late in my own bed. Exercising off some of the overabundance of Thanksgiving food I ate. Eating even more of said Thanksgiving food for lunch and/or dinner, now in the guise of leftovers. Finding time in front of my computer to catch up on work. Cajoling my kids into doing some of their … [Read more...]

The "novella" is an interesting literary type, isn't it?  I became fascinated with novellas last year, when I was preparing to try my hand at writing one.  In time, that effort became Love in the Details (which just released).  Yippee! Even though novellas have a long history -- they were first written in Europe around 1350 during the Renaissance -- I'm guessing that most of us are much more … [Read more...]

On the cusp of revealing the cover for Her One and Only, the fourth and final book in my Porter Family series, I'm feeling nostalgic. I love reading series and I've wanted to write a series for a long time.  After I was married and before we had children, I penned romances for the general market.  Way back then, I had dreams of writing a series.  I published the first book in what was to become … [Read more...]