Lots of authors nowadays enjoy writing and sharing bonus scenes with their readers. These are scenes that didn’t appear in the book, but that the author makes available via their newsletter, website or a service like Bookfunnel. They’re a little extra treat, if you will, for people who enjoyed the book and don’t want to […]
Scammers Gonna Scam
I love being generous with my readers. I run lots of paperback giveaways in my newsletter and enjoy sharing free ebooks from my author friends. However, I learned a hard lesson a while back that social media giveaways are not always a good idea. Here’s why. When I was hosting a giveaway for my last […]
Ripped from the Headlines
It was the summer of 2022. The tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas had thrown me for a huge loop for a whole bunch of reasons: Uvalde is only a five-hour drive from where I live in South Texas, so it felt like it had happened in my own backyard The mother of a student […]
Chatting with My New Friend, Nicole Lam
Nicole and I met at a writers’ conference in Arizona at the end of September. She’s a Chinese-Canadian author who got her start on Wattpad, and she now has ten published books under her belt! (In the picture below, I’m sitting in the front row, and Nicole is standing right behind me!)Today, her first book […]
The Christmas Countdown Is On!!!!!
The wonder of the Christmas season is upon us! 🎄 Although Advent doesn’t actually start until December 3 this year, when I was growing up, we always started decorating for Christmas on December 1, so December 1 is my default day for starting the Yuletide celebrations. (I grew up in Canada, where Thanksgiving takes place […]
The Scariest Thing About Writing Christian Romance
I didn’t start out writing Christian fiction. I actually didn’t even know Christian fiction was a whole genre until 2017 or 2018, when I actively sought out Christian books to read during a difficult time in my life. Years before I discovered Christian fiction, I got my master’s degree in creative writing. As part of […]
Nerds and the Creatives They Love
It’s my 17th wedding anniversary tomorrow, which of course is making me think about my own personal love story. 🥰 I’ve enjoyed seeing some of my favorite romance writers put together graphics about their real-life romance tropes, so I put one together for you! When I did it, though, I realized that my story isn’t […]
Funniest Editing Fails
One of my biggest nightmares as an author is…typos. 😟 Grammaticos. 😨 Formatting errors. 😱 In order for a story to shine, I’m a firm believer that the mechanics need to be strong. I reread my manuscripts SO MANY TIMES before they’re finalized. However, despite my best efforts, little things almost always slip through. A […]
My #1 Pet Peeve in Romance Novels
Harlequin, one of the biggest romance publishers in the world, recently conducted a survey to find out how people in 2023 feel about love, relationships and—of course—happily ever afters. The results were interesting, and they shed some light on why my biggest pet peeve in romance novels bothers me so much. According to the survey, […]
The Black Moment
I recently saw a post on Facebook in which a reader asked for recommendations of romance novels that don’t have a “black moment.” If you haven’t heard the term before, the black moment is the point when all hope is lost. In CCR, it’s the part of the story where the boy does not get […]
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