Hey, guys! While we wait (and wait and wait and wait…) for Royally in Trouble (more on that later) to arrive this winter, how about we do a giveaway for the fabulous audio of Engaged in Trouble, book one in the Enchanted Events rom-com-mystery series? The super talented actress Reba Buhr narrated this audio production, […]
READ MORETo celebrate the newly recovered A Sugar Creek Christmas, I’m giving away a newly released audio book from my collection to five winners. It’s easy to enter. Details here! a Rafflecopter giveaway Save Save Save
READ MOREHello, there! Happy almost-summer to you. I’m officially out of school, and the living is easy. Except for all the writing. And the new home buying. And the packing. And the moving. And the writing. And the House 1 Fixing Up. And the House 2 Fixing Up. And the old house selling. ASIDE FROM THAT, […]
READ MORESo the thing with pre-orders is you often can’t see the chapter sample. NO BUENO. My newsletter friends got a sneak peek of one of my favorite chapters/scenes from I’ll Be Yours, but that didn’t include the all-important chapter one. So…here ’tis! CHAPTER ONE Sometimes I stare out my bedroom window, find the North Star, […]
READ MOREGoodbye to 2015 This year. This year I stepped out of my box. This year I stepped out of a jean’s size. This year I made new friends. This year I made memories with family. This year I gave myself permission to work less. This year I resolved to eat 90 percent less sugar. This […]
READ MORENaNo starts today! Who’s in? NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. It’s held every November, only the second most inconvenient month of the year. Apparently December was taken. So in between the normal activities of November (shopping, eating turkey, napping, standing in long lines at midnight at Wal-Mart for a set of Egyptian cotton sheets […]
READ MOREHey, guys! This post will just bore the pants off of some of you, but I’ve been getting a lot of questions about indie publishing. I thought I’d post a few “must knows” here. 1. Series is king. You can do really well publishing stand-alone books (not that series books aren’t stand alone), but overall, […]
READ MOREHey, y’all! To celebrate JUST ONE SUMMER on sale for the awesome price of 99 cents for the next three days (Kindle, iBooks, Kobo, Nook, GooglePlay), I’m doing a giveaway. We have a few adorable, cute, fantastic, I need to stay out of them locally owned stores where I live, and when I saw this […]
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READ MOREHappy Friday that is definitely not a Wednesday! Is everyone having a good summer so far? I am really, really proud to say I have yet to contract poison ivy, which I’ve done the last few years, and when I say “done,” I mean DONE REALLY WELL. Like, I don’t want to brag, but I […]
READ MOREHey, guys! I’m excited about a few things. First, today was our students last day. We teachers are never quite sure we’ll make it ’til the end. It’s always a sweet blessing to still be alive and conscious at the bitter end. And of course, I’m excited about a fun New Adult book coming your […]
READ MORENeed some last-minute gift ideas? Have some folks on your list who are hard to buy for? Here are a few book suggestions. 1. Underwater Dogs, a coffee table book. I gift this quite a bit. It just makes people HAPPY to look at these pics of some very motivated dogs swimming underwater. If they […]
READ MOREHey, guys! Long time, no talk. Or write. Or book publish. I’m very excited to tell you that Katie Parker’s story is finally here. Mostly here. Here in a lot of places. What is Can’t Let You Go about? I’m so glad you asked. An old love whose kisses make her weak, but whose secrets […]
READ MOREI’m spending two days at a conference for librarians. It’s interesting people watching. Any conference is. There is a vendor fair here, and a company is selling tshirts. One of the shirts was for the librarian with a house full of cats. I did not see one shirt for the librarian who loves puppies or […]
READ MOREWhile finishing up standardized testing prep last week, I found myself overseeing a classroom of 7 eighth-grade boys. We had had 20 minutes left with nothing to do, so a game of “What If?” broke out. Each of the boys threw out the typical questions. “Would you rather eat worms or a live fish?” “Would […]
READ MOREI’ve been on a nonfiction kick in the last year. I read a lot of health books. I’m currently reading one called The Virgin Diet, which is not about throwing young maidens into a volcano. (Seriously, worst title ever, marketing folks. I keep the cover face down, I don’t tell people about it. All because […]
READ MOREI never knew I was so desirable until I got on Facebook. My visage is apparently so alluring, it draws men even from foreign countries. From thousands of miles away, they sense my sexy. They write me messages and are so love-drunk, they forget how to spell. They are so besotted, their English fails them. […]
READ MOREHey, friends and random spammers! I’ve missed you. What have you been up to? It’s Spring Break in my world and that means no work and no college. (And also no makeup. No hair washing. No alarm setting. No cleaning. No homeworking. No professional dressing. No vegetable eating. No bedtiming.) The sequel to Devil Wears […]
READ MOREI was watching Castle a few weeks ago. Beckett was being held hostage and stuff. (Just a normal day at the office for us 21st Century career girls.) So the dangerous mobster puts Castle on the phone. And Beckett talks to him, tells him she can’t wait to go see his favorite baseball team play. […]
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