Purchase the ebook NOW on Amazon or B&N Pre-order the paperback NOW on Amazon or B&N Official paperback release date: December 15, 2015 Editor’s Preface “To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts-absolute gifts-which have not been acquired by one’s own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul.”…
Rath’s Deception started as a short story – I honestly don’t remember where I got the idea, but I liked the concept of an elite assassin struggling to complete a final kill as part of his contract with a sinister organized crime syndicate. I wrote it in a day or two (this was some years…
One day it struck me—at 2:00 in the morning in the midst of another grueling 24-hour shift. I had just finished interviewing a nice lady with an appendix about to burst—we’ll call her Linda. I had done my best not to yawn as I went through the routine questions that an anesthesiologist is obliged to…
Roped In is a cozy mystery about competitive jump rope, a sport most people have never heard of. The concept for Roped In was born of desperation. My editor had approved three storylines for the Karen Maxwell mysteries, but when it came time to write book three, I knew I had a problem. I told…
The entire idea of the Crystal Cove Romances came to me shortly after I’d finished my first four books, which were a YA paranormal romance quartet. I spent a day at the beach to celebrate finishing the final book, and on the way home, I began to think about my favorite restaurant. And as I…
As I’ve been writing my Courting series, the book titles have been the key inspiration for the story lines. The Courting theme has made the titles easy. First there was Courting Jealousy. Then came Courting Trouble, followed by Courting Innocence. Each title sparked an idea, but none more so than my current book, Courting Danger.…
The inspiration for the book came to me during my senior year in high school, (which was a very long time ago.) A friend got pregnant and decided to keep the baby and get married once she graduated high school. As the writer’s mind often wanders into the “what if,” I wondered what would have…
“An Embarrassment of Riches” The Last Wife of Attila the Hun is based on both legend and history. The legends I studied came from a book called the Poetic Edda. While the Poetic Edda was written in Iceland in the thirteenth century, the “eddas” or poems it includes existed orally for centuries before they were…
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