Kaira Rouda, author of BEST DAY EVER, one of the launch titles for Harlequin’s new Graydon House imprint, recently took the time to chat with me at Miss Ivy’s. Here’s our chat. My review will be posted later. I read that you’d wanted to write since third grade, yet you went into marketing and did […]
I love novels that include both romance and suspense/thriller elements. I like the extra depth it gives the story. From the start, I envision the book being as much about the developing relationship between the hero and heroine as solving the suspense/thriller mystery. There is intrigue in both. How will the protagonists extricate themselves from […]
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY BRIEFING MEMO SUBJECT: Top Five Playlist for Nikki Navarre’s Foreign Affairs Series WARNING: This message will self-destruct. Nikki Navarre is a globetrotting ex-diplomat and author of the Foreign Affairs series—sexy spy romance set in Russia and other exotic international locales. State secrets have never been this sexy! While writing The Russian […]
SOLDIERS’ STORIES: A COLLECTION OF WWII MEMOIRS by The Miller Family is an inspired book of history, loaded with photos, maps, sketches, and most importantly, the 140 personal memoirs from those heroes and heroines who fought during WWII and from their families. There are personal stories, tributes and so much more in this incredibly beautiful […]
For a limited time, ADAM FRANKENSTEIN: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES by Sheila English is FREE on Amazon through November 3rd! Get your FREE copy here! About the Book What if the Frankenstein creature didn’t die in a fire,a crumbling castle or on a glacier? What if he never died at all? Adam Frankenstein, a […]
It is truly my honor to have Emily Winslow, author of JANE DOE JANUARY: MY TWENTY-YEAR SEARCH FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE, the riveting and courageous story of Emily’s quest for justice from her terrifying and violent rape as a college student in Pittsburgh. I found this book to be heartbreaking, inspiring, frustrating, terrifying, honest and every other emotion […]
When I first sat down to configure the plot for my next book, ONLY YOU, I quickly realized that it actually needed to be told in two novels. So I have a 2-book “duet” coming. Book 1, ONLY YOU, will be here on July 1st. And the companion novel, ONLY MINE, will arrive in October. The […]
Apologies for the delay in getting Toni’s Q&A here. Life got in the way for both of us. If you’re interested, you can find my review of THE SAINTS OF THE LOST AND FOUND in the review section. Now, without further ado…. For those, like myself before reading your recent blog post, who had no clue […]
You may know T.M. Causey as Toni McGee Causey, creator of Bobbie Faye. Her latest is miles away from Bobbie Faye. The first in what may become a series, that remains to be seen. THE SAINTS OF THE LOST AND FOUND is a dark Southern Gothic, you can’t say you weren’t warned…. Avery Broussard has […]
I write historical romance set in Victorian America, so I consider it my job to “romance the past.” For every aspect of Victorian life I find unappealing, there’s one that strikes a chord—and my romantic sensibilities. I can’t help imagining myself between the pages of my books, living back in the days about which I […]
Elementary school teacher and part-time librarian Sarah Mayhew has the perfect plan: show off her cycling skills at her school’s bike retreat and attract her oblivious coworker in the process. Her end game? Fall in love. Only one problem: she needs to find someone to teach her how to ride a bike pronto. But when […]
I’ve got a new book coming out. INTO THE WHILWIND is Megan O’Brien and Dirk Reynolds’s story, the second book in my BOSS Inc. trilogy. When Meg’s three-year-old son is kidnapped, the former lingerie model goes to the only man she trusts, private investigator, Dirk Reynolds, her former bodyguard, the man who was still owns […]
When I decided to write a mystery series, I needed to make a lot of decisions starting with where I wanted it to take place. I decided on Mendocino, California, a picturesque location with towering redwood trees, the blue Pacific Ocean, and an abundance of lush vegetation. I planned on using the names of places […]