What makes a good book better? Re-writing it over and over again, of course. Though no matter how many times I go over my own work, I always need an outside eye. That’s why God made early readers, in my case, LaDonna Lindgren and Laure Creasy, who help me catch the worst of my mistakes. …
 What inspires us to write? When we are satified with our lives, feeling fulfilled and happy, do we feel the same need to create as when we are struggling? I know that many of my books have come from a place of discontent as I work toward wrestling with the way the world …
It is outlandish to be gone from my own blog for so long. My excuses are deadlines, as always, but also traveling. I had an amazing time at this year’s Romantic Times Convention, enjoying myself with Jennifer Weltz, CW Gortner, Stephanie Dray, Kate Quinn, and Donna Russo Morin during our off hours. I got to …
Am I alone in this? Every time I begin the first draft of a novel, two conflicting realities converge. The need to write, and the need to run away. I have taken to calling this the Write or Flight phenomenon…the thing that makes me get up from my computer five times on the same page, …
Sometimes it is hard to find the spark of the Muse. When day to day life gets in the way of art, as it so often does, we search in vain for that spark of divine fire, for the voices of our characters, to lead us back into our work, back into the joy of …
There are days when the work flows, when we sit down at the computer and are amazed that the words come through us like a rushing river, carrying us ever deeper into the story, into the lives and the world of our characters. Then there are the other days. What brings us to the page …