My Christmas novel, Sleigh Bells in the Snow, is available for pre-order! It’s not too early for the holidays, right? Let’s celebrate Christmas in July! I am so excited to bring you this story. Writing it felt like visiting a…
A Ranch to Keep is back, with a new cover and in great company! This edition can be found at Walmart for a limited time, as well as at all online retailers. I’m very happy that A Ranch to Keep…
I love this quote. “Follow your inner moonlight. Don’t hide the madness.” I’m sure it can mean many things to many people. But it makes me think of all those nights in my late thirties, when I lay awake feeling…
Recently I came across this quote from Natalie Goldberg’s classic book, Writing Down the Bones. Have you read that book? It holds a place of honor on my writing craft bookshelf. Ms. Goldberg writes, “Basically, if you want to become…
As writers, we are good at what we do because we can drift away into an imaginary world for hours. That’s probably a good thing for the stories we’re writing, but it might not be a good thing for us.…
A few of you have been kind enough to send me notes, wondering when my next book is coming out. And the answer is, I still don’t know! I’m working on an entirely new story, the story I started for…
I’m starting to write a series about a small town rodeo so I really want to spend some time at rodeos this year. I haven’t been to a rodeo in ages! Last summer I was determined to get to a…
What a year 2017 has been! A year of reckoning for sure. A roller coaster year, politically and personally. A year where my books were finalists or winners of several contests. That was thrilling! A year where I wrote my…
Ten things to know about Falling for You: 1) It’s an anthology with ten romance novellas. 2) Each novella takes place in a small town in the fall, so there are lots of pumpkins and fall leaves and fall holidays,…
Life is what we make it, right? Turning lemons into lemonade is a real thing, a life skill we should teach our kids because in real life things go wrong all the time. That was the case yesterday when my…
