For a writer nothing compares to actually seeing your book be released out into the wild. OK, perhaps that’s a little dramatic, it’s not like I’m raising tiger cubs here. But I am excited! Twice now I’ve come so close (those of you who still ask me when The Spellbound Bride is coming out, I’m [...]

I have a love/hate relationship with Valentine’s Day. How can you not love a holiday that is about love, celebrated by eating chocolate? But I hate what commercialism has done to it. My kids, in grade school mind you, feel pressured to BUY things for friends, their teachers, even their parents! WTH? Valentine’s Day is [...]

You would think that writers stick together. Um, yeah. Let me disabuse you of that notion right now. There are literary writers and there are genre writers. Kind of like there are Catholics and Southern Baptists. Both Christians, but totally different. Literary writers are given reviews, and taken seriously, usually producing work that transcends society [...]

OMG. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to a blog…it all gets worse. It appears now that historical romance novelist Cassie Edwards has not only taken passages from many a research book verbatim into her own novels, but has also taken passages as well from the 1930 Pulitzer Prize winning novel [...]

It seems like you can’t turn a corner without running into a comment about mega-selling romance author Cassie Edwards. Right now it’s all over the blogosphere and nearly every major newspaper since the Associated Press got a hold of Nora Roberts for a comment. I regularly read the blog Smart Bitches Trashy Books that broke [...]