Welcome to my cyber conservatory, a glass-walled, tile-floored, plant-filled room overlooking the tiered gardens of my English country manor.OK, I really live in an ordinary house in Florida, but I can dream, can’t I?After all, that’s what romance writers do, so make yourself at home and join me as I discuss my life as a historical romance author, and life in general…
So totally didn't see this one coming. I had such big plans, the most important of which was to get those 10 chapters off to my agent this week. And what a fantastic...
Somehow I managed to volunteer to judge the RWA's two big contests this year -- the Golden Heart for unpubs and the Rita for the pubs. This was completely accidental on...
Living in South Florida these past twenty years, one could definitely say I've spent a good part of my life surrounded by Latin culture. And I LOVE it!! Talk...
Time to take a peek into YOUR VIRTUAL BOOK BAG and see what's up for January. Ooh, look what I see -- a hot and humorous romantic suspense by award-winning Shelley...
The tree is down, the decorations boxed and about to be hauled back up into the attic for another year. The house feels kind of empty, but at the same time wide open to...
Finally saw the long-awaited (especially considering I wanted to see this in the mid-1970s) King Tut exhibit. And...well...I have to admit I was just the teensiest bit...
...And apparently I stepped right into it last week when my husband and I drove to West Palm beach to be "fitted" for archery arrows. This was something I hadn't...
OK, breaking my own "not bloggin' for the holidays" rule (well, not so much a rule as a guideline) because I wanted to let fellow readers and especially fellow Medieval...
I knew I wouldn't have much time for blogging with the holidays fast approaching, but there's really another and much better reason for not frequenting my cyber conservatory...
I'm really excited to blog about this next book, because the author, Janice Lynn, and I were fellow RWA Golden Heart Finalists back in 2003. That was an amazing group of...
Hey folks, it's time again to see what's new at Your Virtual Book Bag (see link to the right). If you'd like something special to heat up your holidays, here's a little treat by...
Hmm, it appears there's a game of Blog Tag going on and I've been tagged -- twice, by Mary Stella and Teresa Bodwell. So I have to come up with 15 facts about me and books --...
The Christmas season officially began last night with a lovely dinner out with a group of about twenty -- a really nice time, but from here on in I know the pace will become...
Phew! Thanksgiving is a wrap. Turkey came out really good especially considering I was working with a brand new oven (oh how I hated the moment I shot wildly with...
I'm so proud of myself -- I wrote seven pages yesterday in between trips to the supermarket and Bed Bath and Beyond and preparing the house for Thanksgiving. SEVEN...
What a great way to spend an afternoon -- exploring the Miami Book Fair. It was a beautiful day for it and there's really nothing like wandering among a literary crowd. We...
Tropical Storm Gamma heading this way Monday, taking almost exactly the same course as Wilma????!!!! HOLY $#!%!!!! Not that it's going to be the kick...
There was a discussion recently on one of my many online writer's groups about the question, or shall I say quandary, of working mothers vs. primarily stay-at-home moms. I...
My husband said the nicest thing last night. He said, "The next time we go to Ireland, when it's just the two of us, we've got to rent a really great sports...
The schools are OPEN! I feel as if we've been in stasis for much longer than two weeks, like the hurricane threw us into a time-warped, alternate reality where the main...
Another week has gone by since Hurricane Wilma disrupted life in South Florida, but things are ever so slowly returning to normal. Some of our traffic lights are actually...
But for the slam-bang of the debris trucks picking dead trees off the sides of the road and the buzz of our lawn guys hacking our ragged backyard privacy hedge in half...
Good weather holding, if slightly warmer now than it was. We're trying to contact our insurance company which is proving to be a test of endurance. Maybe they're...
As my husband said, every adult in South Florida has something to do right now. Spent a few hours today clearing out broken eureka palms and shefflara (spelling?) branches...
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