Monday Happenings!

When I sit down and my fingers began to fly over the keyboard, what am I thinking? Plot? Characters? Action? or Readers? To be honest, it is a combination of all of those. I write the story the way I see it. My characters speak the way I hear them in my head and the…

I am in a large group of established indie and traditional published authors and yesterday one of them wrote a detailed post about how many indie authors shouldn’t publish the first thing that comes to them because they haven’t honed their craft yet. About 100 comments followed and it was an interesting thread (not nasty,…

I was a reader first.  Then a reader/reviewer.  Then a blogger.  When I first began writing about 6 months ago, my only concern was not falling flat on my face.  Would anyone like my book?  Would anyone buy my book?  I told my husband that the only reason I was writing was just to prove…

I have had the amazing opportunity to not only visit but also have a condo on the fabulous Eastern Shore of Virginia, now the setting of my upcoming release and beginning of the new Baytown Bay Series.  Coming Home will star Mitch, one of the FBI agents that my readers have become introduced to through…

Release day jitters! Today is release day for my 16th book and you’d think that there would no longer be any anxiety or jitters!  But alas, each book represents a part of myself, my creativity, my being…that is released into the world.  Like a child that makes its way, you hope that the world will be kind….