One of the things I really love about being a writer is doing research for a new book series. Writing always starts with a basic idea and the constant question of “what if?” After a short time I generally have a pretty good idea of who my main characters are, a little bit of their… Read More
Do you believe in love at first sight? Edward Harper doesn’t. He’s a practical veterinarian, with both feet firmly planted on the ground and zero interest in starting up anything new right now. Z-E-R-O. That is…until he sees a woman stranded on the side of the road leading to his small hometown, Journey’s End, in… Read More
If the seasons all have their own unique calling cards—snow and toddies and roaring fires for winter, flowers and showers for spring, foliage tours and pumpkins for fall—wouldn’t it stand to reason that what we read would change with the seasons, too. And that got me thinking . . . If summer is all about… Read More
Finding Just the Right Match When I come up with a story idea, one of the most import aspects and sometimes the most difficult, is to find the right romantic match. The right hero for the right heroine, two people who, by the end of the novel, will fit perfectly together. Since AGAINST THE TIDE… Read More
by Susan Wiggs They say you never, ever forget your first time. It’s one of those “aha” moments when the world shifts, and afterwards, nothing is quite the same. You keep this moment in your heart forever, and it’s still vivid even decades later, it’s still as vivid as the rose that just opened in… Read More
What could be better than a June wedding, save for maybe New York Times Best-selling Author Linda Lael Miller’s take on the summer matrimony tradition. This month sees Book 3 in Miller’s The Brides of Bliss County Series debuted May 26. The Marriage Season finds two of three best friends—Hadleigh, Melody and Bex—happily wed after… Read More
by Dani Collins Seduced Into The Greek’s World Let’s talk love affairs. Not the cheating kind, but the classic, romantic, springtime in Paris, black-and-white movie kind. The kind where no one gets hurt except the two people drawn together by wild attraction who part with only a few wistful sighs, not true heartbreak. That’s the… Read More
By Jenny Holiday Are you a Belieber? Perhaps your tween daughter is? (If you have no idea what I’m talking about, don’t fret: you’re totally normal. Beliebers are obsessive fans of Justin Bieber.) I myself am not a Belieber, but I have fallen under the spell of one or two massive celebrity crushes in my… Read More
The idea for a trilogy set in Alaska began when my husband and I took a road trip several years ago all the way to Fairbanks and back. We loved it, couldn’t wait to go again. A second trip seemed the perfect opportunity to develop plots and characters for books about the three brothers I… Read More
It usually doesn’t take more than a chapter or two to recognize the hero in a love story—even if our hero starts out a bit of a rascal at the beginning. Which begs the question: What makes the perfect hero . . . for you? I can still remember reading VIRGIN RIVER, Book 1 in… Read More
As I’m enjoying the release of the 15th Sarah Booth Delaney mystery, BONE TO BE WILD, and writing the next installment of this crazy series, I am struck anew by the forces that came to play in how Sarah Booth and her friends became a mystery series. To be completely honest, I’ve adored reading mysteries… Read More
by Sabrina Sol Before I ever type a word, I will visualize the story in my head. Usually I picture the opening scene and the final scene and one or two of the more dramatic scenes. Characters, dialogue, props – they’re all there playing in my mind like a little movie. And just like the… Read More
On my recent trip to Rome to finish researching St. Cecilia’s life for my historical fiction novel, Virgin Martyr, I spent some time at the Temple of Vesta and the home of the ancient Roman Vestal Virgins. One of my purposes in writing this book was to investigate how attitudes about women’s sexuality and social… Read More
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