Six Months to Launch

After all the months I've spent focused on school board obligations and the crisis our district has been facing for all of the 2023-2024 school year, I've almost forgotten what it's like to focus on other aspects of life. Like writing. Wait. Am I an author? I...I have a new book coming out later this [...]

Temper the Dark release day!

Release days are always a big occasion in this house. Mostly because I insist on it. So happy birthday to Temper the Dark!!! There will be large, decadent cookies later today. Would you like to know a secret? (There are so many in publishing...) The original title of Temper the Dark for years was Witchling. [...]

Will Rise From Ashes

If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook or if you follow this blog, you know I’m a huge fan of supporting other authors, and you're probably aware that I’ve already supported my good friend and author Jean M. Grant twice this year with two of her releases. Now join me in welcoming her back [...]

The Release Day Plan

So what does one do on the day their very first book launches into the universe? Here's a list so you can see how incredibly *unusual* today really is. In order, I... Got kids up and ready for school. Picked up extra kid to take to school. Did the social media thing. Picked up older [...]

Soul of the Storm

Join me in welcoming author Jean M. Grant to my blog again today as she releases the second of her three 2019 anticipated books and novellas. Soul of the Storm is a sweet romance novella  ebook from the Deerbourne Inn series that features a heroine you’ll enjoy rooting for, a hero you can fall in [...]

The Never Expected and Always Unthinkable

If you’ve been following me for a while, odds are good that you know the health crisis we’ve been through over the last year as my husband faced a scary pancreatic cancer diagnosis last spring. The kind of diagnosis you’re not supposed to get at 43. It was awful. It was traumatic. And until this [...]

Book Buddies

It probably goes without saying, but I love books. And if you’re a writer, it’s a good bet that you do, too. It’s hard for me to keep up with the constant stream of fantastic new releases, so I leave that job up to my friend Shanah, the Bionic Book Worm. If you haven’t checked [...]