[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUknJSb_BWE[/youtube] I adore the Regency period, or at least my very clean, very wealthy version of it. In my books, all the men are rich and handsome, and all the women are beautiful and fiery. They wear silk gowns and dance at elaborate balls, often with the Pricne Regent in attendance. In my novels, there are no …
Biltmore Christmas Fun Actually this post is less about Regency England and more about the Gilded Age in the United States. Long before income tax came into being, the American elite built castles of their own, many in Newport, but one particularly gorgeous one in Asheville. I am going to look at the …
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. …
I had the distinct pleasure of downloading Grace Burrowes’ GARETH: LORD OF RAKES onto my e reader while I was sick in bed. Let’s just say that Gareth made my cough livable. I forgot my hacking and my general malaise and enjoyed watching him seduce and be seduced by Felicity, his lady love. This book …
I know….this picture looks like any road, anywhere, But it’s the road to my new home, which makes it magical for me. Home is family, friends, warmth and laughter,and loved ones. But it can also be a place, a place where the heart feels it has come to the end of a journey, a resting …
 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 …