Snow? What Snow? Turn Up the Heat With Harp Security.
In about six weeks (on St. Patrick's day—talk about lucky!) my new book comes out. It's called Echoes and it's officially the first "Harp Security" novel. (Pay no attention to what it currently says on Amazon—the title's wrong and there's no picture yet.) If you read...
Thoughts on Laundry (a #prompts2015 post)
One of the questions one of the prompts2015 contributors asked was: "If you could eliminate one thing from your To Do list without actually having to do it, what would it be? How would the task get accomplished?" That's an easy one for me: Laundry. Here's my issue...
Do You Journal? (A #prompts2015 Post)
One of the things I wanted to do this year was to keep in better touch with my pals who follow the blog. So I reached out over social media and asked whether anyone else wanted to get together and write up some blogging prompts that we could all share. We came up with...
Emotional Manipulation
I have learned, through years of therapy along with a fair amount of self-observation, that I am extremely susceptible to emotional manipulation. For example, I cry at the bloody Christmas ads where the kid comes home and makes coffee. Books do it. Movies do it....
Another New Year, Still No Resolutions
Last year, I wrote a little about why I don't believe in resolutions. A long time ago I gave up making New Year’s resolutions and switched over to giving myself goals. That may sound like mere semantics, but the two things seem fundamentally different to me. A...
Sex Sells . . .To Some
Today on Twitter I was wondering if whether romance in general had gotten so hot that authors were no longer writing (particularly single title) R-rated romances. Or even close-to-X-but-not-XXX romances. Many people on Twitter chimed in with suggestions and while some...
Gift Books for Creative Types
So loads of people are saying "buy my book, it would be a great present." And many of them are probably right. But in case you are in search of something a little different, here's a list of things that might strike a chord with the creative types of all ages in your...
Back from St. Martin
My husband and I spent last week in St. Martin, where my next book (Echoes, coming March 2015) is set. If you live in New York, it's ridiculously easy to travel to St. Martin, a half-French, half-Dutch island in the Caribbean. My parents bought a timeshare there when...
Boston (More Than Tea) Party!
If you're in the Boston area, I hope you'll come visit me and a whole lot of other folks on December 6 at Penny Watson's Holiday Book Fair, Craft Fair, Cocktail Party, and All-Around Bad-Ass Bash. (OK, that's a slight exaggeration of the title, but it's how I think of...
The Jaws of Life
Several years ago, I was part of a charity anthology. (You can still buy it on Amazon—Feeding Kate—the profits go to the Lupus Foundation of America. Click the picture at right to see all the fabulous authors who contributed!) The original intent of the anthology was...