I have a regular joke with my friends that if the police or FBI suddenly take me away in the middle of the night, tell them I'm a writer and that anything in my search history is for research. When you're a writer, everything becomes fodder for a book. Conversations...

As a writer, I value the importance of the right words. Language is a nuanced beast and context can be just as important as word choice. And let's not get started about punctuation. Let's eat Grandma! vs Let's eat, Grandma! But I digress... Writing a story is the...

The MC in my new book Unspoken Rules is a troubled young woman. Her mind does not work in a mainstream fashion. I needed music that reflected a soothing chaos. Seems a little contradictory, doesn't it. I found two artists that fill the bill - Nils Hahn and Chris...

I've always been content to sit in the background. When we auditioned for the theater club, I wanted to be the stage manager. When we were planning a conference, I loved being the organizer rather than the keynote. Some of it has to do with my history as a pianist,...

I started writing because it was an assignment in English class, something I had to do in order to fulfill a requirement. I kept writing for much the same reason - there was something in me that had to get the stories in my head out. With everything going on in the...

Happy Valentine's Day! I'm so excited to share with you the cover and release date for Book 3 in the Hearts of Louisiana series, Love and Miss Fortune, which will be available on March 18, 2021. Harley Fortune was born bass-ackwards on the unluckiest day of the year....

To me, a book review is almost better than an actual sale. If I make a sale, I have gained one much loved and appreciated reader. If I can get that reader to leave me a review, then there's the potential to engage with and capture a much larger audience. But book...

I wish I was one of those intuitive people who could read faces and know if a person is lying or telling the truth. Did their eyebrow go up? Did they look left or right when they told me they had oceanfront property in Oklahoma for sale? Were their hands steady or...

As a younger person, I would watch the clock tick down the seconds to the new year and think of all the things I would accomplish in the coming 365 days. The promises I would make myself were often too grandiose and usually based on a feeling of failure from the...