Wisdom from Jeff Bezos
The first time I heard an Amazon commercial, I was in my car, driving to or from work. And back then, work was the place where I put in most of my computer time. Working. Never shopping. In those days, I … Continue reading →
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One Hand Reaching Forward, One Hand Reaching Back
Anyone who has accomplished anything in life has not done it alone. In January, we pause to remember that the best way to honor those who have helped us is by “paying it forward”. National Mentoring Month was established in 2002 to promote youth … Continue reading →
Father Time Overcome by Love, Hope, and Beauty, or Setting My New Year’s Resolutions
Oh no! Another post about How The Blogger Will Totally Transform in the coming New Year. So let’s see, in 2014 I will: Lose weight and become svelte and sophisticated. Exercise and become svelte and sophisticated. Sell a romance series to … Continue reading →
Dashing Through the Regency Snow
Who doesn’t associate Christmas with snowfall and the kind of weather that makes you bundle in front of a cheery fire? As I write this, our Southern California “cold snap” gives us daytime temps in the sixties and the sun is shining brightly. … Continue reading →
Ro-dee-oh
This is our third year in a row making the trek to the Thomas & Mack Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for the National Finals Rodeo, the “World Series” … Continue reading →
Five Historicals Worth a Read–a Visit from Debut Author Libby Waterford
I am delighted to have author Libby Waterford as a guest today. Libby’s debut novel, Love Unlocked, is being released by Decadent Publishing (more on that below). Like me, Libby loves both contemporary and historical romance, and she’s here … Continue reading →
Taverns and Tabernacles
This past week brought an emergency family trip to Chicago. As always, we paid a visit to my husband’s old neighborhood of Pilsen. The houses in this lower west side neighborhood sit in sunken lots with garden apartments below street level because the sewers went in after the houses were … Continue reading →
It’s NaNo Time
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 →
Halloween in Regency England
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 →
A Day on the Range
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 →