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
By Tina Gabrielle I’ve always enjoyed romance novels with spies. I love the combination of romance and espionage. I had fun writing At the Spy’s Pleasure, the second book in my Regency spy series, In the Crown’s Secret Service. Both books in the series are adventurous historicals about sexy spies and the feisty, independent women… Read More
I will never forget the first four things I ever heard about women’s fiction author Terri DuLong: 1) She was a big knitter 2) She was a former registered nurse from Boston 3) She started her writing career as a contributor to Bonjour Paris (she loves all things French) and did more than forty articles with… Read More
“In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” writes Alfred, Lord Tennyson. But in my world, the quote should perhaps be, “In the spring a reader searches her TBR pile for bride stories.” Or maybe it’s only the romance authors who think about bride stories in the spring! But I… Read More
THE MILLIONAIRE DADDY PROJECT, a Summer Romance – With Wine! by Roxanne Snopek – In my latest summer romance from Entangled Indulgence, THE MILLIONAIRE DADDY PROJECT, my foodie-hero tantalizes the heroine by asking her to test a new wine for his restaurant. Because my book is set in British Columbia, the hero has chosen a luscious Okanagan… Read More
by Elizabeth Otto I love a good reunion story. As a former Navy wife, who spent months upon months waiting for her spouse to return from deployment, I suppose this isn’t surprising. I’d count the days on a calendar, marking off each one until finally, six long months had passed and I’d be on the… Read More
by Suzanne Johnson People in New Orleans know Hurricane Katrina changed everything. In the Sentinels of New Orleans series, whose fourth book PIRATE’S ALLEY released recently, they don’t know the half of it. Ten years ago, in the post-Katrina city, we went through the slow, painful process of rebuilding. We knew we could never regain the… Read More
If evil threated to destroy everything you knew, would you flee, faint or fight? I’ve asked myself these question a million times. I don’t know the answer, though I do think love is the ultimate emotion and people will go to great lengths to preserve it. I like to believe I would fight, but I… Read More
This week Vanessa Waltz’s novel Knocked Up by the Bad Boy topped at least two industry best-seller lists for self-published ebooks, including three romance categories for Kindle eBooks. And that got me thinking. Is it only me or have the gimmicks once tucked inside a novel to make the denizens holler and the gatekeepers bellow—the… 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
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