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...
Adventures & Travel
All About Jane
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...
Haven is one good guesser . . .
Because she answered precisely "What did I sit next to on the plane?" I sat next to, not one, but two sweet little birds, and they sang all the way from Detroit to Seattle. Talk about your coach class migration. It was so funny because people, including one of the...
Have you ever flown with a . . .
Okay, just back from vacation and thanks for all the great comments during my internet-deprived trip. We were visiting the MIL and she hasn’t got internet. Well, she does have internet. Dial up. I know. Why didn’t we just go camping? I'm such a DSL snob. I freely and...
Prophetic Titles
I suppose my promise the other day to blog yesterday about being an idiot came true, since I totally spaced blogging yesterday. But what I really wanted to talk about was that I am in The Complete Idiot's Guide to The Ultimate Reader List. Have you seen this book yet?...
Oh, yeah! The Writing . . .
In all the hoopla and post picture posting frenzy of conference writing seems to get shoved to one side. That's my biggest problem with conference—it can be a total time-suck on the writing. And it is all about the writing after all (though all the party...