Well Rats

Oops is a word you don’t want to hear from a surgeon, a pilot, or an author when her newest book just came out. That was me last Tuesday, ready to celebrate the release of Tattered Honor. The new release had the correct cover, but the interior had Book 3, Inconvenient Honor, instead of Book […]

On My Toes

I’m back from my travels, avoiding the heat, and tap dancing as fast as I can. Figuratively speaking, of course. I’m dancing among projects and Life as usual. The cane in the picture is more real. After falling (yes again–banged my knee) I decided I need to keep using it, if only to remind me […]

It’s May

Tra La, it’s May, the, er…blessed month of May. My world has been exploding with birds, blossoms, and butterflies. I decided I was at the point I had to either move to one of those independent retirement apartments or hire help with the yard. I hired help. Flowers have been planted, and the squirrels are […]

Progress On All Fronts

What a week I had–and another hectic one is approaching. First the big news: Honor at Heart Book One, Family Honor, and Book Two, A Lady’s Honor are up for pre-order! They are on my website with their pre-order links. Family Honor is a novella, originally intended as a prequel to the series. It has […]

Wishes

However you celebrate this darkest time of year, I wish you warmth, light, joy with family and friends, and books—piles of wonderful books As to me, having celebrated Hanukkah with part of my family, I’m traveling to celebrate Christmas with the rest. I will see you after the first of the year, certainly before twelfth […]

Names Names Names

This weekend I began working on a made-to-order story that I plan to give to my newsletter subscribers in December. At the start of any story one of the challenges is naming characters, titles, and places. For historical romance they should be authentic, attractive, and, especially in the case of titles, wholly fictional. Christian names […]

Beginnings

Is this crisp weather we’re having here in the urban wilds the end of summer or the beginning of winter? We went from one to the other rather abruptly. Meanwhile, Bluestocking Belles and Friends are looking at the very end of a project, the day Love’s Perilous Road is launched into the hands of readers […]

Progress!

We had a productive week here in the urban wilds—with a little help from my friends. The big news is that Merry Belles is now up for preorder! I will go live December 20. I think you’ll like my little holiday homicide, “The Angel’s Announcement.” It begins, “They found the shepherd eight days before Christmas. […]