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Fun Review at B&N!

Today I read one of the first ‘public’ reviews of She’s Gone Country over at B&N.com, and I loved it!  Made me get that super excited feeling about the book’s upcoming release all over again and I thought I’d share the review with you:
From Unabashedly Bookish: The BN Community Blog:
I’ve Gone Country… Thanks to Jane [...]

I Wish I Was a Librarian

I practically grew up in the Visalia library.  From an early age I rode my bike there and back, mywhite plastic flower basket on the front of my Schwinn bike with the turquoise banana seat packed with books.  Mrs. Livingstone, the head librarian, always allowed me to check out more than the maximum amount you could [...]

Reading Claudia Dain

I love to read.  Oh, I love to read, and I’ve been so very happy reading for hours every night Claudia Dane’s incredible series, The Courtesan Chronicles.  Megan Crane introduced me to Claudia Dane.  Insisted I read her.  I said yeah, yeah, I’ll make a note of it but never picked up a book.  I [...]

Those Amazing Harlequins

I just heard back from my new editor in London that she loves my tweaks to my Christmas story set in Venice and that’s a huge relief because 1) I loved this story and was worried it was a little too “out there”, and 2) this is the first time the wonderful Sheila Hodgson has edited [...]

Fresh Starts

Yesterday I began planning and plotting my new book(s) in earnest.  I’m putting together a series of books that have some connected characters.  As I’ve shared before, I love this stage in writing.  It’s the pre-writing, brainstorming, mulling, analyzing stage.  Very few words go down on paper now.  Rather I put together binders with character [...]

She’s Gone Country

I’ve just finished going through the galleys, proofing it one last time before it goes to press for its summer release and I love this book.
I love this book.
I’m really proud of this one, too.
I want to write more novels like this She’s Gone Country.  I want to continue writing books the way I’ve been writing [...]