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Thank you for having me here today to talk about my newest release, LEAN ON ME.  This book is the second in a series set in the fictional town of Holloway, West Virginia. The hero in this book is the brother of the heroine in the first book in the series, IT’S NOT CHRISTMAS WITHOUT YOU.  The […]

Familiar with a Twist One of the best things about writing fantasy is that I get to create my own world. One of the hardest things about writing fantasy is that I get to create my own world. If that seems contradictory, it’s because… well, it is. To quote Voltaire (or Uncle Ben from Spiderman, […]

The year was 2009. I was supposed to be learning all about the craft of writing in San Francisco at the Romance Writers of America National convention. Instead, I sat in my hotel room with my two best buds talking story ideas and eating junk food.  I wanted to write something different. I’m a romance […]

CONFESSIONS OF AN AUTHOR Take three wacky aunts, two talking animals, one nervous bride, and an upcoming hit, and you’ve got the follow-up to JB Lynn’s wickedly funny Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman Knocking off a drug kingpin was the last thing on Maggie Lee’s to-do list, but when a tragic accident leaves her […]

First Kisses By Katie Porter I absolutely love the title of this blog. What more do you need in life but books and kisses? Chocolate, maybe. I can’t even say coffee anymore because I’ve quit caffeine. Books, kisses and chocolate are all I have left. (Imagine that said with overly dramatic sigh. I do a […]

During the construction of every novel, I learn the most amazing things.  Trivia mostly, but still…entertaining to say the least. Here are some fun things I learned while writing BLAZE: More than I ever wanted to know about Area 51 How snipers are tested and ranked in marksmanship The stipple pattern a bullet makes on […]

Romance is a lot like Chocolate By Merrie Destefano TITLE: Romance is a lot like Chocolate By Merrie Destefano TEXT: Your palms are sweating, your heart is racing, you’re tongue-tied and you’re certain that whatever you do, this situation is only going to get worse. The brief scene described above could be from two very […]

Dating and Other Dangers by Natalie Anderson  Writers often get asked which is their favourite of their own books. This is, usually, an impossible question often likened to being asked to name a favourite child. And generally it is impossible – when I think of each of my books there are things that make me […]

I’d like to thank Books-n-Kisses for having me today. It’s great to emerge from my writing cave upon occasion. What type of research goes into writing historical romances? The type of research conducted for writing historical romances depends much upon what the author is aiming for. Perhaps the story is only going to be told […]

Northwest Perks Kristine Grayson When people hear that I live in the Pacific Northwest, they assume I came for the rain. I did come for the weather—I was raised in Northern Wisconsin where the summers hit 90 degrees and the winters could go to minus 30 (without wind-chill). So living in a temperate climate truly […]

What’s With the Spanking? by Patricia Green Sometimes, when I’m talking about my writing to people who are open-minded, I describe my current projects as “spanking romance.” I haven’t always worked with strong spanking themes, but I am now, and it hearkens back to my early reading of historical romance from the ’70s and ’80s, […]

Take Me To Your Planet — or — Writing Futuristic Romances by: Myra Nour Do you want to zoom away in a spaceship? Or be captured by a hunky alien? Perhaps your fantasy is to be whisked off to a far future society, where all diseases have been eliminated? Or maybe you’d prefer a society […]