Southern Fried Chicas

I’ve been lucky. Whenever I’ve been asked to be a bridesmaid, we were blessed with really nice dresses. The groomsmen were gentlemanly, the jewelry low-key, and the bouquets were lovely. These were important considerations for a single girl thrust into the role. There aren’t always a lot of perks to the job, and there is [...]

I refused to comment about another hard week. Things have to balance out eventually, don’t they? But I wasn’t quite up to two blog posts today, so I hope you’ll join me at the RomCon site, where I’ve been invited to post today—and give away a free print copy of “Hotter Than Hell”. Have a [...]

I always have more trouble crafting my heroines than my heroes. I can’t say for sure why that is, but there it is. Sometimes I think it’s because I’m so focused on what I don’t want them to be, I have trouble pinning down what they are. But that’s another blog post… This week, following [...]

I’ll have to join Tanya in confessing I’ve got nothing really prepared this week. It’s been an unbelievably stressful one at work and I haven’t done a bit of writing. All I wanted to do once I got home was collapse and stare at the tv. And so I found myself watching “MasterChef”, featuring Gordon [...]

Few things have made me happier in reading and writing than cross-genre fiction. In writing, it offers the chance to experiment, to add spice to the usual menu. Maybe even stretch the wings in an entirely new direction, to give your reader who may be expecting one thing a taste of something tantalizingly else. Since [...]

Out of all the romance authors I’ve read, I do have a favorite. And as strange as it may sound—and although I’ll read practically anything this woman writes—I don’t care much for her heroines. Her stories are great. The lady is a fabulous writer. It’s just that I don’t think her heroines are her strong [...]

A few years ago, I had a dream. I dreamed I was a young lad, an apprentice to a stonecutter. The setting seemed more medieval than anything else, and it was really more about learning a craft than earning a wage. My master was a big, hulking man, severe of face and short on words, [...]

Haven’t done this in quite a while, so I figured it was time. It’s Free-For-All Friday. There’s no subject pending, and the blog is open to whatever may come. Got a question, any question? Bring it. Comment on anything? Post it. Niggling little problem? Get it off your chest. Vent? Bring it. Are you a [...]

For a change, it was fairly easy to come up with a blog post today, lol. I ran into it while revising a section of the current work in progress. Eight pages of it. SERIOUS INFO-DUMP!!!!!!! I’m trying to convince myself I wrote it all down for my own benefit, so I’d have a handle [...]

“I was standing there naked when my dead husband walked into my bathroom…” Lillie St. Claire is a Talent, one of the rare few who can permanently dispatch the spirits of the dead that walk the earth. Her skills are in demand in a haunted country, where a plague of ghosts is becoming a civic [...]