I recently participated in a panel discussion about writing sweet romance. One of the first questions was, “Why did you decide to write sweet romance?” (For those of you who do not regularly hang out in the world of romance…

I recently participated in a panel discussion about writing sweet romance. One of the first questions was, “Why did you decide to write sweet romance?” (For those of you who do not regularly hang out in the world of romance…
I love researching and writing about wildlife, and there are wildlife conservation efforts in my Heroes of Shelter Creek books. My new book, Second Chance Cowboy, has one of my favorite wildlife scenes I’ve written.
Today I’m catching readers up on where I’ve been (pandemic parenting) and what’s coming up next for me in my writing life.
It’s Teaser Tuesday in the writing internet world! So here’s an excerpt from my new book, Rescuing the Rancher. Jade Carson is a firefighter trapped on Aidan Bell’s remote ranch with a wildfire coming their way. In desperation, she decides…
Hello blog friends, it’s been awhile! With the global pandemic and my child’s school closed, I lost my writing time, yet still had books to write! I abandoned this blog for a few months to meet my deadlines. I abandoned…
Are you familiar with National Novel Writing Month? It’s a chance to push yourself to write 50,000 words of your novel in one month. It takes place every November, which makes absolutely no sense. November is a busy month. And…
Today I saw a bit of Greta Thunberg’s speech to the United Nations about the climate crisis. Faced with her passion and her absolutely understandable panic over climate change, I had a moment where I felt like I should give up…
Anyone else get a little hung up on perfection in their writing? That feeling that if you could just polish your story a little more, then you’ll let someone else take a look at it? And then, after a few…
Many readers have let me know how much they enjoyed learning about mountain lions in my new book, Reunited with the Cowboy. I’ve enjoyed learning about them too! It’s interesting to me, how much we think we know about a…
I’m sure you’ve heard these ideas before. Write what’s in your heart. Write the book you want to read. Write the story that seems the most frightening, the most impossible, the most challenging. The story that feels like it needs…