Good morning, dear Reader!Life is a funny thing, isn't it? Here you are, going along placidly doing your thing when it smacks you upside the head and you have to plot a new course of action. On Saturday, my husband and I will be traveling home to Jam...

Dear Reader,It's conference time for me again, and as I write this, I'm at the end of my first day at the Romance Writers of America Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. It was a productive day, and I learned some new things to help me in my writ...

Good afternoon, dear Reader,Let me begin with apologies for sending out this newsletter later than normal. Life has a way of hitting you with a one-two punch when you're least expecting it, and like death and taxes, there's nothing you can do to avoi...

Dear Reader,Chalk it up to a tired mind, but I left out a very important piece of information in the newsletter that I just sent out at midnight.My new book, the second in the Serendipity series, comes out next Monday, July 4. Back To Love is set in...

Hello again, dear Reader!It's been a little bit longer than a month since the last newsletter, but there's method in my madness, I promise you. This month, I'm going to be talking about pets, again, but specifically dogs...hence the title of this new...

Dear Reader,I'll bet you never thought you'd be having growing pains after the teen years, did you? If you're like me, you figured that awkward phase was over once you hit your early twenties. While that may be true -- though given all the aches and...

Dear Reader,Welcome to summer! I know, it's not even June as yet, but if the above-90F temperatures that had us sweating in the mid-Hudson valley this past weekend were anything to go by, summer is well on its way. I freely admit that it is my least...

Happy Double Take Day, dear Reader!Today is Mother's Day, and I'd just like to celebrate all those of you who act in the role of mothers to the children in your care. Whether they are young or old, mothering never ends. It only changes, and we all ne...

Dear Reader,As I write you this note, I'm in Daytona Beach to participate in my first IRAE event as a featured author. IRAE stands for Interracial Romance Authors Expo and is an annual event that brings readers and the authors they love together for...

Dear Reader,It's been a rainy couple of weeks, and the pond is almost overflowing, with more rain in the forecast. April is indeed the cruelest month (that's what T. S. Eliot wrote and he knew whereof he spoke!) but at least it's not snowing in my ru...