November 1st has come and gone, and I am more than 8000 words into a new novel! It’s November, time for the 2013 edition of National Novel Writing Month. Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of people will sit down to keyboards and … Continue reading →
The Headless Horseman from Sleepy Hollow Ah but this is a deceptive title for this week’s post. Regency stories abound with tales of masked balls and costumed Vauxhall romps, but I’ve never read any that included trick-or-treating, or apple-bobbing, or ghostly … Continue reading →
For my birthday the year before last my husband bought me a Smith and Wesson. Yep. A gun, and not just a gun, an automatic. My dear father taught me how to shoot a rifle when I was about ten, … Continue reading →
I am so excited! Tonight starting at 9 p.m. EST I’ll be chatting with other Soul Mate Publishing authors and readers at Coffee Time Romance. Here’s a link: http://www.coffeetimeromance.com/Chat.html#.UlssYBvn9jo I’ll be discussing my Regency Christmas novella, Rosalyn’s Ring, and giving away … Continue reading →
Subtitle: The National Holiday Which Shall not be Named I am speaking, of course, of Columbus Day, which theoretically commemorates the October 12, 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas. In my state, local schools do not observe this holiday–no … Continue reading →
October kicks off an observance dear to the heart of any writer–National Book Month. Our house is crowded with spaces that look like this: Our shelves are filled with classics, self-help manuals, and keeper fiction, and we love to browse … Continue reading →
I spent a beautiful, breezy afternoon at the Angel’s last Sunday home game of the season. A swarm of bees disrupted the game in the bottom of the third, until the Angels enlisted a fan and sent him to right field with a … Continue reading →
No, that heading is not a spelling error. Recently (see my What I’m Reading page) I had the good fortune to spend some time, and alas, too much money, in a couple of used book stores in Prescott, AZ. I came … Continue reading →
In my post a few weeks ago about the release of my novella, Rosalyn’s Ring, the topic of Wife Sales drew a lot of interest. Legend has it that the highest ranking purchaser of a wife was Henry Brydges, Master of … Continue reading →
“He was ninety percent hotshot, and the ten percent was left for us. But he loved me more than I’ve ever been loved in my life.” Amanda Marsh, widow of Eric Marsh, Granite Mountain Hotshots’ Founder and Superintendent, quoted in … Continue reading →