JADED Cover Reveal and ...

I’ve been so busy with traveling, editing, and all my various NaNoWriMo activities, I have not done an official Cover Reveal for JADED. I’m so excited about this book. It comes out Nov 22 from Dreamspinner Press. It’s Book 3 in the Precious Gems series. So here’s...

How’s Your #NaNoW...

Word Count As of last night I should have at least 20,000 words written. I’m hovering around 18,000 right now. In my favor I was out of town at a convention for 4 days and spent one day in the hospital for tests. But I will make up the deficit by Sunday. I make that promise to...

Party Like a Rock Star ...

I’m so pleased to have Cecilia Tan as my guest today. I’ve known her online for about five years, and finally got to meet her when we did a panel together at Azkatraz  in San Francisco. I didn’t realize then what an icon Cecilia is in the world of erotica, erotic romance, and portraying...

#NaNoWriMo Story Plan f...

It’s been a rough busy start this month while I was finishing up edits for upcoming releases, but I have finished my Story Planning Worksheet for my own NaNo novel. According to the poll, a lot of people were interested to see how I fill in the sheet to build characters and how...

#NaNoWriMo Planning Kit...

National Novel Writing Month began on November 1. How are you doing so far? I’ve put together a series of blog posts on the best way to plan your NaNo novel so you be much more likely to not only keep writing, hit the 50,000-word mark, but also end up with a finished novel at the end of...

Quickie #poll: Author p...

It’s tough enough to write a book and get it published, but authors have more to worry about. Writing bios is tough and we also must choose whether to share an author photo on our websites or even on the book cover. As a reader, what’s your opinion on author photos? Do you...