Very cool things going on

It was wonderful to spend last weekend at the DFW Writers Conference, communing with my fellow agents, meeting and renewing friendships with the wonderful DFW membership and seeing some of my local authors!  Here’s a wonderful pic of us at dinner at Italianni’s. (From L to R: J. Kathleen Cheney, P.N. Elrod, Karen Whiddon, me, [...]

Congratulations and a book birthday

Happy book birthday to award-winning author Beth Cornelison for her new Harlequin Romantic Suspense novel SOLDIER’S PREGNANCY PROTOCOL!  You can check it out over at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Books-a-Million and everywhere else. Blurb: Survival. Danger. Living on the edge. It’s what Alec is all about. But crawling on his belly through the South American [...]

So much

I feel like a lot of my posts are titled “So Much….”  Contrary to exaggerated predictions in 2011 about the death of publishing, 2012 has been probably the busiest year ever, so far!  So, when I find a spare second to update my blog, I feel like I’ve got a ton all stored up. To [...]

Where am I this time?

Well, today I’m over at Magical Words, talking about literary cheerleaders and what they mean to me. Come Friday I’ll be off to the DFW Writers Conference.  I look forward to seeing some of you there.  Hope you’ll give me a shout out!

Great news to share

So much great news to share today! First, a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Vicky Dreiling for winning the Holt Medallion for Best Historical and receiving an Award of Merit for Best First Book for HOW TO MARRY A DUKE! Also, another congrats for David Mack, who won the Unreality SF “Story of the Year” Award for [...]

Why I Do What I Do

I get the question in interviews all the time, “How do you do it all?”  They’re talking about agenting, authoring, mothering, wifing…okay, I made up that last word.  The real question is, “How would I stop?”  Here are the hard truths: -Any day I don’t write feels wasted.  It doesn’t matter what else I do [...]

TRUST IN ME by Beth Cornelison

I’m very excited today to present Beth Cornelison, author of many wonderful books for Silhouette Romantic Suspense, HEALING LUKE from Sourcebooks Casablanca, REYN’S REDEMPTION and UNDER FIRE from Samhain, and TRUST IN ME, a small town romance perfect for bathtub or weekend reading and, best of all, FREE for the next few days for the [...]

Girlfriends’ Cyber Circuit Interview with Jessi Kirby

I’m pleased today to host Girlfriends’ Cyber Circuit sister Jessi Kirby, talking about plotting and her new and very timely book IN HONOR.  I hope you’ll enjoy and that you’ll give Jessi a shout out to let her know you’re here. IN HONOR by Jessi Kirby Reading level: Ages 14 and up Hardcover: 240 pages [...]

Book birthdays!

Posting tomorrow’s book birthdays today!  (In reverse order from my last week’s “yay, they’re coming!” sort of post.) BAD BLOOD by Lucienne Diver (Samhain), Latter-Day Olympians, Book 1 Tori Karacis’s family line may trace back to a drunken liaison between the god Pan and one of the immortal gorgons. Or…maybe it’s just coincidence that her [...]

Birthdays, book birthdays and tweetables

“Happy Birthday to me, I’m a hundred and three….”  Oh wait, no, no I’m not.  Just feels like that sometimes!  Anyway, I’m taking part of the day to do fun things, like have lunch with the fab Kira Sinclair over in glamorous St. Pete Beach, but before I go, I wanted to leave you with [...]