The Cavanaugh House Audiobook is on Tour and You Could Be the Winner!

  AudioBookworm is featuring the audiobook version of The Cavanaugh House on a tour from May 3-12. Join the fun and enter to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card! See the tour schedule below.   About the Narrator: Amy McFadden  has narrated over 250 titles in many different genres with a focus on Comedic Fiction, Romance, and not-super-violent Thrillers.  She is an Earphones Award winner, and a four-time Audie Award finalist in Humor, Mystery/Thriller and Literary Fiction.     What readers are saying about the audiobook version of The Cavanaugh House: “The Cavanaugh House is one of the best audiobooks Read More

Morgan O’Neill Weaves Holiday Traditions into Romantic Tales

I am a HUGE fan of Morgan O’Neill ‘s time travel books, so I am happy to announce that both Italian Time Travel books are on sale over the next two weeks. December 16 through 22 The Other Side of Heaven will be 99 cents/pence on Amazon US and Amazon UK.  December 22 though 28 Time Enough for Love will be 99 cents/pence on Amazon US and Amazon UK. Today Cary Morgan Frates and Deborah O’Neill Cordes who write as Morgan O’Neill share how the holidays influenced their novels.   Holiday Inspirations by Morgan O’Neill Have you ever wondered how Read More

The Importance of Secondary Characters

Author’s Note: The Cavanaugh House is on sale for 99 cents at Amazon.com until Sept. 27. In celebration of this event, I am giving away 5—count ‘em FIVE—ebook copies of The Cavanaugh House. To enter, simply Join this Site or leave a comment and click on “Notify me of new posts.” To buy your copy click here. And now, back to our program: Like all authors, my head is filled with the words, actions and feelings of my protagonist. But a good story requires more than one character (unless you’re Jack London) to round out plot development, character motivation, story Read More

Alien Romance Crosses the Universe in Alienne Mine

Deborah O’Neill Cordes has been my friend and supporter since our debut novels published on the same day in June 2012. Since then, she has published eight more books under her own name or as half of the duo that writes as Morgan O’Neill. I love every one of her books and today she’s talking about her newest release, Alienne Mine, the prequel to Dragon Dawn. (Note: Dragon Dawn is on sale for 99 cents on Amazon U.S. and Amazon U.K. Sept. 15-21)   Take us through your process of discovery, Deborah. What element of the books came first, characters? Read More

Back in the Saddle Again: Time for Revision

Boris is starting to whisper to me again. That’s right, my Muse is back, and, boy, have I missed him.   I have not written since February.   This year we’ve wrangled a major decluttering project that led to a huge garage sale. We sanded, painted, (well, Rich did) cleaned and staged our house in preparation for listing it, lived with the nightmare of keeping our house spotless for showings, sold it, house-hunted in another city, moved, unpacked and settled in. I was in the process of reading my manuscript and marking up revisions during this craziness, but eventually I Read More