I had an author friend once tell me that your hero and heroine should be the absolute worst people in the world for each other. Anything less just wouldn’t be compelling enough to keep readers turning pages. My personal feeling is that’s a tad, well, overboard. But the basic idea definitely creates conflict. Which is… Read More
The advice to “Write what you know” always seems to fall apart if you’re a fantasy writer like me. I don’t know how to do magic, and I’ve never been to the world in my book The Moonlight Blade, because so much of it came from my imagination. But nothing comes from nothing. There were… Read More
First, my FREE EBOOK, ONLY HER HEART, one of my clean mystery romances, will end on Thursday, March 23 at midnight. Here’s the link to look it over and grab your copy. Why not tell a friend? I ask this because it is the thread that ties together the 4 books in my brand new… Read More
I’m often asked what attracts me to writing science fiction romance. To me, it’s the endless possibilities, the idea that other life forms besides humans exist in the universe. Aliens who may or may not look just like us, and how many of those new species might be compatible with us. Now entice those aliens… Read More
In my newest thriller, A CRY IN THE DARK, the heroine FBI agent Violet Rainwater investigates brutal murders where the killer blinds his victims before ending their lives. But she’s also been looking into a cold case abduction—her mom’s. She’s calculated, persistent, and diligent in getting the job done whether it’s a present homicide or… Read More
A lot of things have changed since I was a kid. Personal computers and the internet are the first mega-changes to spring to mind, and, indeed, they changed everything. The world is now so interconnected that it no longer feels vast, interacting with people from other countries is commonplace and even blasé, and traveling to… Read More
Romance readers love a good meet-cute. I bet most readers can recite their favorite meet-cute from memory. Me? I like to write what I call meet-disasters. Take that first moment of the love interests meeting and dial up the awkward. For example, in The Wedding Dilemma, the couple met when he had to rescue her… Read More
My brother and I had lots of pets while growing up. I look back now and just marvel over my parents’ willingness to take in anything with fur, wings, hooves, or scales. I got my first horse at the age of six and rode all over our small town bareback. Now I think, what was… Read More
Lyn Cote here–I live in the Northwoods of Wisconsin just south of Lake Superior so very close to Canada. Within a 50 mile radius of our home are over 2000 glacial lakes; hence it’s called the Lakeland area–figures, right? In the summer we are blessed with temperatures between 75 and 85 every day and very… Read More
It’s that time of year where romance and all the frilly sayings and gestures that go with it isn’t frowned upon. At least, I hope it is. Considering I write romance for a living and so, always have those things on my mind, I probably shouldn’t care what time of year it is. But alas,… Read More
Well, let’s talk about the photo of my kitties—nicknamed the climbers! Would you believe in November I asked my husband to bring in our 6 foot ladder and put it in the middle of the living room? Well, that’s what I did for the love of my climbing cats. But they finally tired of it… Read More
By Kerri Carpenter In my new book, Come What Maybe, my heroine Lauren returns to her hometown of Seaside Cove, Maine, post-Covid, to check in on her sister and grandmother. Since Lauren is a successful social media strategist, she can work from anywhere. In fact, throughout the story, we find her working from her Grams’s… Read More
Besides love? More book clubs! When I first came up with my idea for THE BEST LIFE BOOK CLUB, I thought I was being so original, so clever. A book about a book club – yes! And then, after I’d surfaced from my writing cave back into the sunlight, I blinked and saw… all kinds… Read More
Read More