Category Archives: Miscellanea

Take Me Please!

This has been a big week for me—personally and professionally. It’s special because we released Megan Crane’s Tempt Me, Cowboy ten years ago, which kicked off the 75th Copper Mountain Rodeo, launching Montana Born, and what would soon be Tule Publishing. Montana Born was started with three of my closest author friends: Megan Crane, CJ Carmichael, and Lilian Darcy. I thought it would be fun to write something together and after calling everyone, we booked flights and met in early May 2013 at CJ’s new cottage on Flathead Lake, to brainstorm our individual series and create some connecting threads in our new fictional town, Marietta. While brainstorming outside on the deck of the cottage with the gorgeous views of the deep blue lake and the Mission Mountains, CJ suggested we … Continue reading Take Me Please!

Pre-Order Now! Flirting With Fifty

Dear Readers, It’s almost Easter and Mac starts Spring Break on Friday.  It’ll be fun to have the week off with him, to just hang out and enjoy my almost 13 year old. We are also just six weeks from the release of Flirting with Fifty, the first book in my Modern Love series from Berkley.  This series will be available in print and ebook, in bookstores (yes!) and at all the online retailers, too. The hero in Flirting with Fifty, Dr. Jack King, was inspired by a cousin of mine who is one of the world’s leading epidemiologists, but my cousin is English not Australian.  My cousin’s work takes him all over the world, and his students adore him.  So that’s where the idea … Continue reading Pre-Order Now! Flirting With Fifty

I’ve Missed My Voice

Why begin blogging again? Why talk now? It’s selfish really. I’ve felt increasingly disconnected from women, and myself. I’ve become silent in the wrong ways, contained when I’d benefit from sharing, shut down when what I crave most is community. It’s hurt me emotionally, and it’s hurt me spiritually, and this isolation has spilled into my work making writing harder and harder because I can’t find words anymore. I’ve spent so much of the past 7 years buttoning myself down, gritting my teeth, holding tightly to faith and sheer will power that I feel as if I’m slowly turning to stone. My silence has created more silence, and the silence and grinding of teeth, and clamping of jaw, and holding … Continue reading I’ve Missed My Voice

Mom Confession

I really thought parenting would get easier as the boys got older. I figured they’d need me less, and I’d be glad to see them out in the world, doing their thing. And some of that is true, but there is a whole lot of gray area in there where its just murky, and confusing, and as both Jake and Ty head to new colleges next Thursday (Jake to Chapman as a junior and a history major, and Ty to Occidental as a sophomore and music production major) I am struggling with the reality of….me. I like having them home. I like feeding them (okay, being a short order cook every morning can get old, but I wouldn’t do it … Continue reading Mom Confession

Release Day! Miracle on Chance Avenue is here!

YES.  I am excited. Miracle on Chance Avenue is out today.  It’s a big deal to me, and I’m really looking forward to hearing what my readers think so get your copy (available in print and as an ebook from Amazon, and as an ebook from iBooks, B&N Nook, Kobo, and Google Play).  This story wasn’t an easy one to write as Rory Douglas has had a very hard past and he wasn’t looking for a happy-ever-after but life had different plans for him! Today is also fun because it’s Tule Publishing‘s Ugly Sweater Breakfast at iHOP here in San Clemente and I love pancakes, especially iHOP’s buttermilk pancakes, and now I have a new ugly sweater for the occasion. … Continue reading Release Day! Miracle on Chance Avenue is here!

Be a part of my website!

I have been with the same web studio, Waxcreative Design, since before my very first book came out over 15 years ago. Four sites (three of my own, and Tule, too!) and over 100 promo projects later, I can’t say enough about how great they are to work with — I’m sure they are just as great to work for. They are adding to their team, and with the hope of hitting the jackpot and getting both a talented web developer and a reader, I offered to help spread the word: Click on the image above, or go to waxcreative.com/jobs. It’s not just my site — among their dozens of clients (including Sylvia Day, Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Susan Andersen, and more), Wax is the team behind the … Continue reading Be a part of my website!

Kat Latham: Wedding Memories

Wedding season is not over in Marietta yet and my guest today is another wonderful Tule author who has contributed so much to our wedding fun this year.  Please help me welcome the lovely Kat Latham to JaneBlog! Here’s Kat to talk about Wedding Memories and her new release, Two Nights With His Bride! ~ For a romance author, I’m surprisingly pragmatic about weddings. I didn’t grow up dreaming about my wedding day. I don’t think I ever looked at bridal magazines till I started writing Two Nights with His Bride. When I got engaged in 2005, I picked out my wedding dress within about an hour of shopping with my mom. I think I tried on only four dresses.  … Continue reading Kat Latham: Wedding Memories

Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day!  I hope you’re having a wonderful day.  I’m enjoying a very lazy Sunday with my husband and sons before the five of us walk down to the pier for a special dinner together. Tule Publishing is also celebrating moms with a special collection of 13 sweet and sexy stories by award winning and best selling authors including my novella that won the Rita award this past summer, Take Me, Cowboy. Even better? This digital boxed set is just .99 through tonight, so if you haven’t downloaded it yet, do it today before the price goes up! Download a copy here: AMAZON | BARNES & NOBLE | KOBO | iBOOKS | GOOGLE PLAY I’m home for another couple weeks and then I’m kicking off seven weeks of book … Continue reading Happy Mother’s Day!

Travel Junkie

My readers know I’m a travel junkie.  It’s my parents fault.  They loved to travel and they would take us, their four kids, on as many adventures as they could.  Thanks to my parents influence, I knew when I was in high school that I wanted to be a writer, and a traveler.  I couldn’t imagine being tied to a desk job without any freedom.  Fortunately, one of my first jobs out of college was working for a small regional airline (later bought by American Airlines) and my job was to sell these commuter planes, introducing them to travel agents and the public in the San Joaquin Valley.  Metroliners were small, narrow, just 19 seats with no flight attendant or … Continue reading Travel Junkie

Did you win?

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas! We have unclaimed prizes from previous posts and if I don’t hear from the winners soon, I’ll be doing a big giveaway for the New Year with mystery prizes. So readers, if your name was picked as a winner on one of my recent blogs, please email me right away with your mailing address.  I would hate for you to miss out on the goodies!