The Corona Virus has hit the world pretty hard, and I’ve been feeling pretty bad that I’m not really suffering. My life hasn’t actually changed that much. I’m pretty solitary by nature, sitting in my Manhattan apartment every day with my cat, typing away on my fluffy, smexy novels, you know? The only difference is […]
Until it happened, I always said that if I were ever raped, I would kick and scream and hit. Before the Me Too “movement” (hate that word). Until it happened, I always said that I would raise such holy hell that my attacker would have marks to show for weeks to come. Sexual assault can be […]
Young Love I’m going to do what I swore I’d never, ever do. So many people who read these days like to have face claims for the characters in the books. This post was originally going to be about a dream cast for Pete & Daisy. But as I started to write, I realized I […]
A book cover is one of the most important things about your novel. The story is what matters, some people say. The characters, the message, the writing. We writers are in love with our own words, and we’d like to believe that good writing will sell our stuff. It’s what we work on, slave over, […]
I write romance novels. By definition, they’re kind of cheesy, I suppose. In this day and age, where people meet, get together, hook up, whatever, via Tinder, Grindr, and others I’ve never heard of, it’s a bit of a dicey proposition, you know? Do people really meet-cute anymore? Do they fall in love? And the […]
So an excerpt from Diving Deep, my second book, has been featured on Cosmopolitan.com, which is so cool! BUT, someone else chose the excerpt, and one of the smuttiest excerpts in the whole book was chosen, of course lol! This is fine, I wrote the entire book, including this excerpt, and I acknowledge that. However, […]
I’m a Luddite. In fact, I’m such a Luddite I didn’t even know what “Luddite” meant for a long time. I’m not even sure I know now. I *believe* it is a wanton destroyer of technology, someone who doesn’t understand and doesn’t want to understand the future. Whatever it is, it isn’t good. And I’ve […]
I’ve been EXCORIATED by various people for writing a Mary Sue as my heroine in my seven book serial. Okay, maybe “excoriated” is too strong a word. I mean, you have to care, like, really care, to excoriate someone. So maybe the capital letters are a bit over the top. Who Is Mary Sue? For those […]
U.K. Crush Most Likely To — always fun to think about, right? MLT be the first to have kids: Matty. He’s so loving and kind, not into the glamorous life at all. He’d drop all that stuff in a red hot minute to be the best father in the world. MLT listen to classical music? […]
So I was not a fan of Wattpad. I’d heard about it, kind of skirted around the edges of it, but never really dove in, if you know what I mean. I was a better writer than that. I was a better reader than that. But I wanted to write about a girl and a […]
