Today is the DAY! Love’s Destiny is now available on Kindle. The paperback edition will follow in March. I enjoyed revisiting Jonathon and Emily’s love story. I’ve revised it substantially from the first edition, and the cover, created by Best Page Forward, is stunning! Read it now She’s loyal to the crown. He sides with the colonies. With a new world beckoning, will they find common ground to merge their hearts? As she descended the curving staircase, a man studied the portrait of her mother. Even from here, she could see he was much younger than her father. The man’s Read More
Tag: American History Romance
Check Out My Cover Reveal
Congratulations to Deb H,, winner of one of my Kindle books. Thanks for leaving a comment on my Halloween blog, Deb. Thank you!! Thanksgiving is just around the corner (can you believe it?) When I think of all that I am thankful for, I will certainly be thinking of you, my readers, and my supporters. Thanks to all of you for sharing my writing journey. Cover Reveal Some of you have joined me recently, and some have been with me from the beginning when my first novel was published. I have been working on revising my first book, and I’m Read More
Passionate Patriots: Valentine’s Day in Colonial America
This is a post I wrote in 2016, but these valentines speak to an era we seldom think of as romantic. They deserve another look, don’t you think? Passion conjures up images of Valentine’s Day more than it does the Fourth of July. The Founding Fathers were serious men about the serious business of changing the world through revolution and a brilliantly written document. But these men were passionate about their women, too. Just look at the love letters between John and Abigail Adams, for example. Addressing her as “Miss Adorable,” Adams wrote: “By the same Token that the Bearer Read More
3 Inspirations that Did Not Lead to a Sparkly Vampire
Don’t you wonder how Stephenie Meyer came up with the idea of a sparkly vampire? How did Diana Gabaldon decide on a portal in a standing stone that whisked Claire off to a Highlander hunk named Jamie? And Hobbits? Really? Where do authors get their ideas? Well, I can only speak to what’s worked for me with Love’s Courage: a word, a photo, and a visit. A Word Rich and I are word nerds. Okay, I’m a word nerd and Rich indulges me. Every morning at breakfast, we look up Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day. On Feb. 26, 2016, Read More
Showing Characters Who’s in Charge (Hint: They Are) Part 2
As I told you in my previous post, I had to have a sit-down with Jenny Sutton to talk about how she was behaving. She had changed from brave and intrepid Jenny in Love’s Spirit to cry-baby, poor-me Jenny in Love’s Courage. Once we straightened that out and I did what she told me to do—go back and reread Love’s Spirit to see what she was really like—her character shaped right up. I had to have a heart-to-heart with another character in Love’s Courage: British Lieutenant Nigel Ashby. I don’t usually share my conversations with the voices in my head Read More