Two years ago I wasn’t even thinking about writing a romance. I’d had these stories in my mind for a long time, but the idea of setting aside everything else I was doing and putting down these stories intimidated the heck out of me. And then one day, while we were on vacation in Colorado,…
Ninety Nine creatively draws on my early years growing up in Brooklyn with a mixed family in a tough neighborhood. We were poor and dangerous and fought mightily to survive as individuals and a family. We lived alongside of the El, an iron dragon that split the street and roared every twenty minutes, shaking the…
The story behind the Timbuktu book goes back, in a fun way, to about 2006. I was masquerading as a Japanese writer in a writers forum. The hoax worked and I ended up writing Sherlock Holmes in Japan, which was published by Harper Collins. Poisoned Pen Press acquired the rights for the US market and…
I grew up reading all kinds of books, but the ones that made the biggest impact on me had a little (or a lot!) of romance. The gothic suspense novels of Victoria Holt and Mary Stewart gave way to more traditional Harlequin romances in middle school and finally the big historical bodice rippers of the…
This is an easy tale to tell. When I began Knight Blindness, the book prior to In Time For You, I knew early on that I would give Roger Marchand a story of his own. Although Roger was the enemy antagonist in Knight Blindness, he wasn’t a villain in the traditional sense. Like my English…
Recognitions is the first of a trilogy and also my first novel. I’ve had three books previously published, but they were non-fiction and short stories. Writing (and publishing!) a novel feels very different, in that it is something that’s created entirely from the author’s imagination and they have no idea how it will be accepted,…
I am a sensitive person who has always been curious about why the world was organized the way it is, why it is so messed up and why I was so different in how I thought and experienced the world. As a child I did not realize that I was a sensitive person who took…
I often hear others in the industry mention their love of the written word or how they knew they wanted to write stories for as long as they can remember. In my case, neither of those statements quite rings true. I hated reading as a young girl. It wasn’t until I was twenty that I…
The inspiration for my book came to me when I heard scientists trying to explain the Star of Bethlehem. They stated that it was anomaly when several planets lined up in just the right way to created what looked to be a huge star, coincidentally at the same time as Jesus’ birth. To me, it…
I love it when people ask me to tell my story because although they would like me to sum it all up, the truth is; there is no short answer. There were several factors that led me getting into fitness, speaking and writing; nothing is coincidence or happens randomly. From the time I was a…
The Story Behind the Book 