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In 1990 I was a senior in high school, and I was friends with my music teacher. It was one of those odd things I never understood how it happened, though I think it started when the drama teacher cast … Continue reading →

  Tonight Twitterverse roared with outrage over Kendall Grey’s post on Authors for Life where she bemoans the fact that sometimes, publishing is hard. Grey spent four years writing and a great deal of money and effort promoting an urban … Continue reading →

To say that Romantic Times exhausted me is like saying water is wet. It was very, very fun, though, and worth every second of weariness I’m fighting this week. How to describe the convention? Not possible, but I’ll give you … Continue reading →

Reblogged from The Armchair Reader: Love doesn’t come with a syllabus. Kelly Davidson has waited what seems like forever to graduate high school and get out of his small-minded, small town. But when he arrives at Hope University, he quickly … Continue reading →

It’s the home stretch before the Romantic Times convention, and everything’s crazy as usual. Finishing up edits on two books, prepping for con parties, having a book chat, ordering swag and updating my website—I’m really looking forward to May 6 … Continue reading →

 Family Man is the April Sizzling Book Club pick at SBTB! Read the full details here, including those for the chat on April 25 (Marie & I will be there). Haven’t bought Family Man but want into the act now? … Continue reading →

Friday around 10:30PM, I finished a “truck draft” (if I’d been hit by a truck, they still could have published the book, though it’d have been a bit rough) of Better Than Love, and yesterday at around 9:30 I got done … Continue reading →

I didn’t get to round three of #DABWAHA, and as I told Abigail Roux, since I was tired just watching I think the best woman won. Honestly, it’s a bit of a relief—now all I have to do is finish Better … Continue reading →

It’s DABWAHA time again, which, if you’re all, “what the fuck?” go read it here. Actually, if you want to play this game, save that link. You’ll need it. A Private Gentleman is a finalist. It made it through round … Continue reading →

There’s actually a whole newsletter with this and other stuff. You can subscribe or just read the link. But because it’s release day, here’s the standard pic, blurb, and buy link stuff.   Family Man Available for preorder from Samhain, Amazon, & B&N. Sometimes … Continue reading →

Last week I only wrote a little bit, because I was prepping for a big fat sequence I would eventually take all day Friday to write. It was 5800 words. It was one of those gigs where I finished and … Continue reading →

Yesterday on my Twitter stream, someone posted what appeared to be an auto-reported update from an app describing how many follows and unfollows that account had received in the last twenty-four hours. The poster was a book blogger, one who … Continue reading →

If you go to Amazon, B&N, and the usuals right now and try to buy Special Delivery, you’ll only have the option of picking up a handful of paperbacks, and before long those will be gone too. The book is, … Continue reading →