As I was coming out of Central Park last Sunday I walked past someone famous and did a double-take. As did my sister-in-law, Cathy. And we both said at once, "Was that_________?" Of course, Nick had no clue who it was—being only 8. And it turns out it was who we...
I've been to quite a few conferences in my time and this past weekend at the NJ Romance Writers Put Your Heart in a Book conference, I was really, really impressed. This is a great conference. And I don't say that lightly. This is a great conference. It would be worth...
Let me just get that up front and center. I LOVE NYC. I always have. I find it enormously fascinating, always interesting, and surprising on every corner. So when I got the chance to speak at the New Jersey Romance Writers Put Your Heart in a Book Conference, I was...
By the time this posts, I'll be in NYC and then off to the New Jersey Romance Writers, Put Your Heart in a Book Conference. I'm speaking Saturday afternoon on How to Write a Synopsis. I'll warn anyone who is thinking of coming to my workshop, I intend to put new...
I love bumper stickers. I'd probably have my car covered with them if it weren't for my husband who finds them abhorrent. So I enjoy bumper wisdom wherever I find it and occasional I see a bumper sticker that just resonates. This was one of them: Wag More, Bark Less....
A lot of writers have some very personal and some splashy and some just private ways of celebrating when a new book gets released. When Love Letters from a Duke hit the NY Times extended list, I celebrated by buying the espresso machine I'd been dying to own—a De...
