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Category Archives: On Writing

Someday My Duke Will Come: MARA Contest Finalist!

Someday My Duke Will Come qualified for the final round of the 2011 MARA Contest! And it was the only historical entry to make the top eight! To view a complete list of the finalists and learn more about the MARA contest, click here. A big thank you to the first round judges and the [...]

Are You Ready to be Scandalized?

Happy New Year! I’m thrilled to start off 2011 with a guest: the fabulous and talented Delilah Marvelle. Welcome Delilah! First, please tell us a little about your recent release Prelude to a Scandal. Prelude to a Scandal is going to poke a few people in the heart as well as in the butt….LOL. People [...]

Flirting with Scandal won the Show Me the Spark Contest!

It’s time to celebrate! Flirting with Scandal won first place in the Heartland Romance chapter’s Show Me the Spark! contest.  The official list of winners are posted on their website. Many thanks to both the first and final round judges!

Honorable Mention in the MARA Contest!

While I awaiting the results of the Show Me the Spark! Contest (Flirting with Scandal was selected as a finalist), I learned that my contemporary series manuscript, Rough Riding Ranger received an Honorable Mention in the MARA Contest! When did I start writing contemporaries? After I started reading them!  Fellow RWA NYC author Hope Tarr [...]

I’m a Finalist!

Sometime between midnight feedings and dirty diapers, I decided to take a chance and enter Flirting with Scandal in the Heartland Romance Author’s 2010 Show Me The Spark! Contest. I felt my first few chapters had that special something but would the judges? A month slipped by, and then on Saturday morning when my little [...]

Naptime is Writing Time

The past few weeks have slipped by in whirlwind of feedings, diaper changes, baths and best of all, smiles. My tiny baby who arrived one month early has grown from 5 pounds 12 ounces to 15 pounds!  My son is a wonderful baby. He is a joy to play with and care for each day.  [...]

Giveaway! An Autographed Copy of Maya Rodale’s A Groom of One’s Own

I am thrilled to announce my first giveaway: an autographed copy of A Groom of One’s Own by Maya Rodale, the first book in her Writing Girl Series! Leave a comment and your name will be dropped into a hat. The winner will be announced on July 4th. Now you may be wondering why I [...]

Writing is Revising (or so they say . . .)

To say I have spent the past few months revising Flirting with Scandal seems a bit of an understatement. A more apt description would be: I took the novel apart, redesigned many of the parts, and put it back together. And now it is finally complete! (For now at least.) What inspired the revisions?  Detailed [...]

So Many Reasons to Celebrate . . .

As many of you may have noticed, I took a brief hiatus from the blogging world recently. What have I been up to since my last entry? And why am I celebrating? First, I am proud to say that I recently completed many months of revisions on my second historical romance, Courting Scandal, and an excerpt [...]

An Update: Courting Scandal

As you may have noticed, I’ve been absent from the blogging world for the past few weeks. Where have I been? Revising and rewriting. I’ve spent the last month editing my recently completed manuscript Courting Scandal.   In brief, I would describe this story as a Regency era battle of the sexes between London’s unofficial [...]