Historical and Contemporary Romance Author

Monthly Archives : February 2011

Today I Learned How to…


…make an animated gif. All by myself and for FREEEEEEE. (I am not terminally cheap, but I am definitely chronically so….) So, here are the results. I’m sure someone with a more expensive software program could make the transitions a little cleaner/smoother, but overall, I am very happy with it :).

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Authors, Publishers, and Validation


Preface: I’m prepared to take some heat for this post. Although I don’t think anything I’m about to say is inaccurate or unprofessional, I expect some people won’t like or agree with what I have to say. That’s okay. I don’t object to dissension, just name-calling. So keep it clean! A few weeks ago, I dipped my toe very gingerly…

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Jackie and the Bee


In about twenty minutes, I’ll be heading over to my kids’ middle school to watch my 11-year-old daughter compete in the 6th grade spelling bee. I have not attended a spelling bee in (mumble mumble) years. Not since I competed in one. Because, you see, it was one of the greatest injustices of my life and I have never really…

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I Am Not a “Fake Author”…


…but neither do I share all the trials and tribulations of my writer life in public. I will grouse a bit if writing is not going well, I will mope about rejections, I will even show you my royalty statement (even when it isn’t exactly flattering). Nonetheless, there are a lot of things I can’t and won’t say because, yes,…

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