I sat in on an acting workshop once, back in the days when I was gathering my Renaissance Woman style education that would later help me to write my books. I don’t remember the exact point the teacher was trying to make, but I believe he was trying to help us access past experiences in… Read More
Only to Have a Book Convince You to Try Again? I was born a romantic girl and a precocious reader. The end result being that by age five, I had already had one drama-fueled relationship that ended in a slap on the kindergarten playground. Yeah, a slap. Somehow even at five I knew that was… Read More
by Cynthia Cooke Meet Riley, the adorable Irish Setter who is the heart and soul of GOING ALL THE WAY. I don’t own big dogs. I’m actually quite terrified of big dogs, in fact, my dog that is so small she can fit in my purse. But then my son adopted a puppy. A sweet… Read More
by Cathryn Fox The other day a guy my husband knew found out I was a romance writer, and he was fascinated, and started throwing questions at my husband. At that time, I thought, what is it like to be the husband of a romance writer who writes the HOT STUFF? So I decided to… Read More
Valentine’s Day can be right up there with New Year’s Eve for all the pressure it puts on ordinary mortals to have someone to kiss at midnight or deliver chocolates. I like to think that’s why our favorite authors work so hard to bestow literary bonbons on us this time of year. New York Times… Read More
The second month of this year is going fast and well for me, and I hope it is for you, too. Earlier this week I chatted on Writerspace, featuring my latest release–well, re-release–the e-version of THE BALLAD OF JACK O’DAIR. It was available for pre-order for a while, but now it is actually available, on… Read More
Behind the Scenes of a Lingerie Fashion Show. One of the fun things about writing is the places your research takes you. In INTO THE FURY, Ethan Brodie, a bodyguard at Brodie Operations Security Services– BOSS,Inc, the guys call it–is hired to protect the models in the La Belle lingerie fashion when they receive threatening… Read More
With the heart-shaped boxes of bonbons at the candy shop, the lacy valentines on the drug store shelf, and the arrow-wielding cherubs on TV, you’d have to be a hermit on a very high mountaintop not to know February is the month for sweethearts. So it only goes to reason that the month that gave… Read More
by Rebecca Zanetti So, I have a new post-apocalyptic series releasing, and I conducted tons of research before starting to write. Many of the foremost scientists of our times believe a humankind ending disaster is a matter of when and not if. And these are the smartest people on the planet! Did you know that… Read More
QUESTION: Welcome, T. M. Causey. Could you introduce yourself to our readers? T. M. Causey: Well, introducing oneself is always rife with danger. I say on my author website that I’m a USA Today bestselling author, a photographer, contractor, designer ninja, rabble-rouser and general crankypants. A long, long (long, really, seriously, get out your prehistoric calendars)… Read More
Hi, everyone. Welcome to my first Writerspace blog of 2016. This happens to be a very busy month for me. Rather than at the usual holiday season, I just had family visiting me, including my two young grandsons. They were around for two wonderful weeks in which I got little done but it was worth… Read More
True Blue SEALs: Zak is the full length book that continues the story in my novella appearing in an anthology this Fall. True Navy Blue was that novella. It’s Zak and Amy’s story, and starts where Zak has been involved in an accident, barely avoiding a DUI charge. He wasn’t really over the legal limit,… 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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