June is the official (maybe unofficial) wedding season. You’ve got great weather in the western hemisphere that makes for the perfect time to tie the know and say I do. It’s also the perfect time to release an anthology collection about weddings. I wrote a novella called Finally a Sweetheart that follows a woman who is always […]
What’s Your Name? What’s Your Story?
Characters are the most important element in the story for me as a writer and a reader. So getting to know my characters tops the list. Often the actually writing helps me know my characters. I know some writers interview the characters to learn about them, but that doesn’t work for me because I am […]
Arrrr you ready?
Doesn’t Quinn look thrilled to be part of the book launch? Don’t worry, she isn’t as mad as she looks, and she only wore the costume for about 5 seconds. Are you ready for quirks, bad jokes, and odd jobs? I love writing characters with quirky habits. My family thrives on bad jokes. And giving […]
New Release and #Giveaway by Merrillee Whren
Yesterday was release day for my book, Hometown Cowboy, the fourth book in my Kellersburg series. Here are the other books in the series. Each book can be read without reading the others, but it is fun to revisit characters from the other books. I remember in high school and college literature classes that we […]
Interview with Evangeline Kelly
Have you ever heard the phrase “Don’t meet your heroes?” We’re a generation led by the faces we see on TV, so that advice makes sense. Actors put on a show without having to reveal their true selves. So, if you met your hero, you might be disappointed to find that the character they portray […]
Series Boxed Sets: Yea or Nay? + giveaway
In recent years we’ve seen a huge uptick in the sales of boxed sets for books, especially eBooks. I’ve been part of half a dozen MABS—that’s multi-author box sets—over the last few years myself, and as a reader I love those because I can get to sample new-to-me names. But today, I’m talking about single […]
Revisiting Characters
A Texas Bond, book three in my Texas Hill Country series, officially released last week. It was inspired partly by my husband and I dabbling in flea marketing after shopping them for years. The picture I included is the booth we had full of items we created or repurposed. It was fun fitting our […]
Family Connections + Giveaway
Family, where would we be without them? I asked the authors of InspyRomance if they had any books based on family and got a hailstorm of information. We all seem to love seeing family connections in books and writers are glad to oblige. I always said, if I could only have one child, I wanted […]
Double Trouble # Giveaway
With eighteen, soon to be nineteen Contemporary Romance titles under my belt, there isn’t much I haven’t put in a book. But never twins. Until A Texas Bond. When I was a teenager, I had this fantasy world in my head where I’d get married someday and have twins. After my son was born, I […]
New Release Coming!
You have no idea how satisfying it is to tell you that When Forever Fades, the second in the Spencer Family series, releases January 26th! 2020 made this a hard one to write. That’s all I know to blame it on, but last year has made it’s exit, and everything is set to go! Here’s […]