I was talking with another author recently. We were brainstorming the start of a book, and she was stuck on how she could realistically take the hero and heroine from complete strangers to the point that they trusted each other enough to share some deeply personal secrets. I kept coming up with ways for the […]
Inspy Romance Isolation Projects
How are you? Not the pat answer you give without thinking, but the raw answer that comes from deep within after a few weeks of drastic schedule change because of a global epidemic. Me? Overall, well. I am able to focus on the health of my family here with me and in my hometown in […]
Perfect Love in an Imperfect World
You know that verse, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23)? Man, it’s so easy to get stuck on those middle two words “fall short,” isn’t it? Especially if you’re a recovering perfectionist like me. Failing and falling short are hard to come to terms with when you’re […]
Keeping It Real
I can totally identify with the photo of the coffee spilling on the keyboard! Anyone else? As my social media feed (particularly on Instagram) becomes overly filtered and posed, I’ve come to appreciate those people who still share “real” life. Not that I don’t love those beautiful posts–but “real life” stuff has it’s own […]
Plot Twist & #giveaway
Greetings from Ohio! The first 60+ days of 2019 have been hard to predict around here. Weather wise, we’ve had a foot of snow, then a polar vortex. There were days we left with a light coat. All I know is there have been a lot of days off from school for our daughter, and […]
How Fat is Too Fat?
Women come in all shapes and sizes, right? Right. And women say they prefer to read about real women, not heroines who are movie-star glamorous with slender (but perfect) curves, and long, shapely legs the hero can’t keep his eyes off of. Those legs were a recurring theme in a romance I read recently! Women […]
Life, Sunshine, and Too Many Alligators
Life is a funny thing. Some days it goes well. Everything is sunshine, rainbows, and kitty cats. Then some days life takes a sharp left turn into the raging storm that sweeps you off the bridge and into the choppy waters of uncertainty where you’re stuck between an alligator and a swarm of jellyfish. And […]
Sunday Edition 2/26/17
It’s late, relatively. For me anyway. I forgot to write this post earlier today (Saturday), so now, I am in front of the computer, at my bed time. But I love you guys, and I’m scared of my fellow admin team (not really), so here I am trying to use my pretty much dead brain […]
Dream BIG!
December 31st!!! Where did the year go? It seems the older I get the faster the year seems to go by. Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that we celebrated Independence Day, and a few days before that Valentine’s Day? And here it is hours away from 2017. For the last few years, I have […]
Real Life vs Writing
Did you know writers aren’t perfect? We have real lives with real troubles. Sometimes real life bleeds into writing–or at the moment, it prevents me from writing. I’d like to say that since my surgery that I’ve jumped back into creating stories without any trouble. But I can’t because I haven’t. And it makes me […]