I’ve been slacking off on posting, so I thought I’d make up for it by posting another free short story.     On Display The latch is broken. The latch is broken. Oh…and, Mindy, don’t forget that the latch is broken. So, naturally, after so many warnings and reminders to herself, when she crawled inside the window display to change […]

I promised some of my Twitter peeps a new short, and I rarely lie. Well, sometimes. When it’s important. Or useful. Or I’m writing. 😉  I considered splitting this into three parts due to its size, but I figured that’d just make some of you pissy…and I didn’t want that. So, here’s a longer short (ha!) for you:   Romeo […]

  Below are books where one of the main characters is considered to be flawed in some way by themselves or by society to a degree that they feel unlovable. They have various levels of obstacles to overcome, but I’m drawn to characters who have more than situations requiring growth, and I heart love stories off the beaten path. I’ve […]

It’s been a while since I posted a free short…so here’s a contemporary magical realism one for you. Let me know what you think.   Incant Me Her spell had gone really wrong…like horribly wrong…which was probably why the book came with warning labels that it was only to be used by the most advanced of necromancers. Cassidy had nowhere […]

This originally appeared on Grave Tells a year ago: Check it out there.     Interview with Jack Frost of Frosted When you’re trying to sit down for a chat with the king of winter, you’re really working on his timeframe—especially since Jack Frost can only be in an area where it’s been below freezing recently, and Seattle isn’t exactly known […]

Well, my Valentine’s novella came out yesterday. Yay!!! Wahoo! Here’s an excerpt from Cursed by Cupid: “I told you, this is dangerous. The curse could take you down at any moment,” she reminded him. “I have been warned,” he agreed. “I’m taking my life into my own hands by coming here, but it’s worth it. Let’s look at this chain […]

Things are about to get crazy. First, let me tell you that you’re all about to get cursed… My novella Cursed by Cupid comes out on Monday–just in time for Valentine’s Day. Woooo! Wahoooo! Here’s the cover for you to Oooooo and Ahhhhh over:   Dear Reader, this letter is to inform you of Cupid’s curse, which will fall upon […]

This post originally appeared on Reading Lark After Dark, if you’d like to read it there: Click Here.     Men of Myth   You’d need to be dead and buried to have missed the resurgence of retold and recast myths. And, really, good stories boil down to a hero’s journey and common characters, but we’re starting to see familiar […]

  More and more I’m raising eyebrows when someone asks, “So, what do you write?” and I say, “I write romance. I’m a romance novelist.” There’s even occasionally awkwardness following this statement–not from me–from them. Some people behave as if I’ve confessed to a much more *cough cough cough* way of making a living. But, you know what? There is […]

So, it’s this huge misconception outside the publishing world that authors have control over their book covers. For the most part, that’s a fallacy in my experience. We see our covers slightly ahead of the rest of the world and breathe a sigh of relief that they’re good. (I’ve loved my covers thus far and had no complaints, by the […]