Hello blog friends! I’m back from the deep, dark writing cave. Yesterday morning I finished my first draft of Aftershock (HQN, 2013). Yay! I’m going to give it a short rest before I do another read-through, polish, line edit etc. It’s due in about two weeks. Although I always feel pressure to submit quality work, [...]

My latest deal was announced in Publishers Marketplace, so I guess it’s okay to share: Jill Sorenson’s AFTERSHOCK, trapped by an earthquake-collapsed overpass in Southern California, a female EMT faces danger from aftershocks as well as a bus of escaped convicts, to Stacy Boyd at Harlequin Romantic Suspense, in a nice deal, in a two-book [...]

Right after I announced that I’d have three books released in 2011, I heard from my editor about my next Harlequin Romantic Suspense. She loved the manuscript and I’m so excited!! TEMPTED BY HIS TARGET will be released in October. More details to come. Yay!! To recap, I’ll have two books out in April, another [...]

I’ve been looking forward to 2011 because 2010 was a slow year for me (no new book releases). Now I’ve got two books coming out at the same time, on March 22. I’m getting excited!! I’ll be posting excerpts and doing more promo stuff as the release day gets closer. Want me to guest blog, [...]

I’ve been having some technical difficulties, which is not an unusual experience for me. I surf the net with my Acer Aspire 5100 laptop and he’s a slow, grumpy old man. He takes a lot of naps when I’m trying to browse for beefcake or blog-hop. It’s a problem. I use my new Dell for [...]

We went trick-or-treating last night, naturally! This year we stayed in our neighborhood (we usually go to my brother’s) and I was surprised by the amount of decorations and general good cheer we encountered. I had no idea my neighbors were such fun-loving goofballs. Huh. Now a rant: Too much candy in the house. WAY [...]

Yesterday was a record-breaker in San Diego! It maxed out at 111 (109 by some reports) where I live in North County. That type of heat is unheard of here. Oddly, it was almost the same temp in Pt. Loma, a coastal area where my husband was working construction. Poor hubby! And only 108 in [...]

I finished my book! Well, a first draft anyway. I have about two weeks to polish it up and then it’s on to the next project. I hope it doesn’t need too much fine-tuning. *biting nails* I don’t think it was a good idea to pick a deadline at the end of summer. I’m always [...]

Dear world, I’m going to my author cave for a few weeks. I will try not to haunt the internet all day and night. Maybe I can actually get some work done! Deadlines are coming up so it’s serious. This is a real blogging hiatus. I mean it this time!! Because my visual inspirations post [...]

Sorry I’ve been MIA!! I’m at the 2/3 point in my writing project and it’s climax time, baby. A race to the fast-and-furious finish. My plan is to complete the manuscript in August and do some heavy editing in September because this draft is rough. Updates may be spotty. I’m also working on an article [...]