Sometimes you have to dig to get the good stuff…

All About Romance has named SET THE DARK ON FIRE a Buried Treasure of 2009! Check out their other top picks and read the B+ review.
Not to be outdone, CRASH INTO ME found some review love at Alpha Heroes.
So great to see my books here [...]

Look what I found at the grocery store last night!

The February issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine features funny girl Anna Faris on the cover and Jill Sorenson’s Red-Hot Read inside, smoking up the back pages!! A sexy adaptation from SET THE DARK ON FIRE, complete with book cover image, is titled “Lust in the Woods” [...]

Some highlights of 2009:
February: CRASH INTO ME, my first single-title romance, is released. Interviews with yours truly appear in Romantic Times and San Diego’s North County Times. My mom puts both articles in a scrapbook. Happy readers email me. Whee!!
June: CRASH INTO ME gets a two-page spread in [...]

Good news! I just found out that SET THE DARK ON FIRE will appear as a Red-Hot Read in the February issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. My previous book, CRASH INTO ME, was featured in June. It’s an honor to be chosen once. Appearing twice, with two consecutive releases? That is [...]

The fertility signs in the Anza-Borrego Desert are natural rock formations, enhanced by human tools. Native American tribes such as the Kumeyaay used some of the yonis in fertility rituals. The actual location of the carvings is kind of a secret. When my husband and I went yoni hunting last spring, these [...]

Set the Dark on Fire is dedicated to my husband for a number of reasons. First, his interest in Native American culture sparked my own. Second, his enthusiasm for rock collecting and artifact hunting has led us on many unusual hikes. Third, when I told him I was writing a story set [...]

San Diego county has more Indian Reservations than any other county in the United States. Two of these reservations, Los Coyotes and Pala, are mentioned in Set the Dark on Fire.

Pala is very close to Fallbrook, where I live. Los Coyotes (not shown on the map) is on the other side of Palomar [...]

I’m getting great reviews for Set the Dark on Fire. Jane of Dear Author picked it as a Recommended Read for September!! Here’s a snippet from her review:
I felt at the end, despite the short time over which the story takes place (just a few days), that these imperfect characters truly had found [...]

Just a quickie repeat post for anyone who needs a pick-me-up. I think I’ll be hiding in my writing cave today, and taking a blog break tomorrow for September 11th.

(My hometown of Fallbrook, CA, from the New York Times)
In Set the Dark on Fire, Luke and Shay encounter a dangerous wildfire on Los Coyotes [...]

I’ve done three photo tours now (the first one is buried in my blog archives) and I’m always faced with the same problem: too many pictures, not enough time. Which shots have the most visual interest? Which ones relate to my book in an interesting way?
The best pics are of the yonis [...]