Chicago Bar Association: 11/8
Hello, Chicago lawyer friends! On Thursday, November 8th, Laura Caldwell, Jamie Freveletti and I will be appearing at Winston & Strawn, courtesy of the Chicago Bar Association and the Alliance for Women, on a panel titled: From the Court Call to the Best Seller List: Women Lawyer-Authors Share Their Stories. The event begins at 5:30…
Read MoreTexas Event in November
I’m thrilled to announce that next month, I’ll be appearing with a wonderful panel of romance novelists at the Stonebriar Centre B&N in Frisco, Texas. The line-up includes Sarah MacLean, Eloisa James, Elizabeth Boyle, Cathy Maxwell and Wendi Corsi Staub. The event kicks off at 3:00 on Sunday, November 11. Hope to see you there!
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This week, I treated myself to a bunch of books I’ve been wanting for a while: — Pamela Morsi, The Lovesick Cure. A sweet, heartwarming romance set in the Ozarks. It reminded me of both Kristan Higgins’s and Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s books, with as much focus on the supporting characters as on the central couple.…
Read MoreThis and That
Elsewhere on the web this week, we have: — A contest over on Jo Bourne’s site for a signed copy of The Orchid Affair. The best part? In order to win, entrants must each submit a poem using certain key words from the book description. The poems are hilarious. Pop over here and check it…
Read MoreWriting Wednesday: Stand Alone vs. Series
It’s one of those apples or oranges sort of things: stand alone or series? After nine years (eleven years if we count back to when I first started writing Pink I– how scary is that?) of working on the same series, I’m in the odd position of working on both at once. Right now, I’m…
Read MorePink X: Now Available for Pre-Order!
Happy news! The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, aka Pink X, is now available for pre-order on Amazon, Books-a-Million and Indiebound. The Passion of the Purple Plumeria hits the shelves on August 6, 2013. You can learn more about the book and read an excerpt here. I’ll let you know as soon as it’s up…
Read MoreIf You Like….
When I posted a call for “If You Like” queries a few weeks ago, one of the requests that popped up was for “Lady Academic Fiction”, fiction set in an academic setting or with a grad student/professor as the protagonist. What could be more appropriate for back to school season? If you like Lady Academic…
Read MoreApologies!
If you’re getting a strange string of techno-gabble every time you post a comment, it’s not just you. When we switched the website over to the new format, a bug snuck into the Comments function. (I picture it as large and cockroach-like.) Bizarrely, it doesn’t seem to impede the comment posting. It’s just a little…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This week, most of my discretionary reading time has been swallowed up by contest entries for a contest I probably shouldn’t name in a category that must also remain nameless. Which means that I can’t list any of it, because it would all be a dead give-away. Here’s what I can tell you I’ve been…
Read MoreTen Questions
The other day, I answered ten questions for Kayla of the Pittsburgh Historical Fiction Examiner (to see the questions and my answers, just click here). Since I thought her questions were rather fun, I’m passing along three of them to you. 1. You’re having a dinner party and you can invite 5 people from history,…
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