Yep. Today I started a new book for Harlequin, one I’m titling for my purposes, The Greek Tycoon’s Trembling Captive Virgin Bride. I think it pretty much sums up the story and characterization and should fly off the shelf. I sat down to write early and am still at my desk at 8:43 pm and […]
Category: Writing Life
Pages
Two wonderful writing-related things happened this week. First, on Wednesday, I received the typeset pages for Flirting with Forty before they’re bound into galleys and arcs, and then printed and published properly, for the bookstores. These pages have the title on every page, and the font that’s used in the actual final edition. It has […]
Numbers Game
Other authors tell me I’m pretty promo savvy. They say my name is really out there in the genre, and that The Frog Prince was everywhere. I’d like to think it was everywhere, but it wasn’t, not really, not to the extent I want it to be. Lots of Border and Barnes & Noble stores […]
Juicy
I’m really grumpy. It might be the dieting–my body isn’t used to this, thinks it’s just plain wrong to be deprived and I quietly agree but am hoping my determination didn’t hear that–and it might be the writing. Which isn’t happening. Because a) I’m dieting and hungry and tired, and b) I’m without childcare and […]
Viva Las Vegas
I’m dashing off to the aiport in a bit for a noon flight to Las Vegas. I’m going for just a night and will be home in time for dinner tomorrow. My great friend, the Australian romance writer Lilian Darcy, is there with her family now and as I don’t get to see her often, […]
Revision Confession
In theory, I embrace revisions. Revisions give me a chance to improve a book, to take a good story and make it great. Revisions mean I can identify themes, strengthen characters and motivation, and hone dialogue. Revisions are good. And sometimes they’re easy. And sometimes they’re really hard. I just wrapped up hard revisions last […]
New Year
It’s finally the new year and I’ve been waiting for this one for awhile. It’s not that I didn’t like the old year, but it wasn’t the easiest year and I’ve this rather silly optimism that says a new year has to be better–or easier–than the last year, which is almost like saying, the grass […]
In The Beginning
My Harlequins are relatively easy for me to start. They start at the point where everything changes–usually when hero and heroine meet and realize (immediately) their goals are in opposition. Starting the single title books for Warner have not been as easy. Trying to find the right way to open this coming summer’s Flirting with […]
Break Ins & Break Downs
I just finished a book last night at 1:30 am and emailed it out to my editor in U.K. It was a very tough write. It was beyond a tough write. I felt like I’d never written a Harlequin Presents before. The book had been due October 31st, and then November 27th and then at […]
Those Wonderful Emotions
I was asked recently by a young beautiful French Canadian woman studying psychology in Hawaii if I was an emotional person, and if so, did my emotions benefit my writing? The woman said her psych professor at the university said many artists draw on their own emotions to create. I was unusually uncomfortable answering her. […]
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