Romance so hot...it melts your Heart

A Divine Six 12/11

Welcome to Six Sentence Sunday. This week I’ve chosen six sentences from my novella set in a NY vineyard, Divine Deception. Since I just received my copies of the print anthology it’s include in, I thought I’d celebrate this Sunday. This scene takes place after Nick, who’s coming back to sell the family vineyard meets the cellarmaster’s [...]

Read more »

New Release Friday!

I LOVE release day! I love it even more when it’s a print book that’s being released. “Ripe and Ready” is an anthology that I’m privileged enough to share with Mardi Ballou, Kat Alexis and Alexis Canto. This book is a compellation of novellas in the “succulent” series including my novella Divine Deception. Cholla from [...]

Read more »

The Man You Can’t Resist

I think finding the right profession for my heroes is one of the toughest jobs. (Get the pun?) I mean there are stories like “Deceive Her With Desire” or “A Touch of Lilly” where a profession like being an alphabet guy just flows naturally from the plot. But sometimes that’s just not the case. In [...]

Read more »

First Things First

I’m hanging out my “Caution: Promo Ahead” sign today. LOL! Every author knows that we have one line, one paragraph and if we’re lucky one page to grab the reader. I can spend days tweaking and reworking the beginning of my stories. So I thought today I’d share with you the first lines of my [...]

Read more »

Shout Out for Wonderful Moms and Reviews!

I couldn’t do an update this week without telling everyone how fortunate I am to have such a wonderful mom. She raised 5 children (each of us a year apart … you do the math … FIVE teenagers! And she survived!) She’s been wonderful as I’ve become a mom. She hangs back until we ask [...]

Read more »

Divine Chemistry

I love this book. I actually did a bunch of research to get details about vineyards and wine making. It was a ton of fun. And then when Nick and Frankie’s chemistry became combustible … well, I was completely smitten. I hope you enjoy this excerpt … Having Nick present while she visited with Joseph [...]

Read more »

It’s a Sexy Caveman

Don’t be jealous, but today I’m in Richfield, Ohio at Romanticon, Ellora’s Cave 1st annual reader/writer conference! And you bet there are some very sexy cover models walking the hall. Now don’t despair. I will have some pictures when I return, but until then, enjoy the cover of Divine Deception and a short excerpt. Please [...]

Read more »

A Little Wine & A Couple of Lies

Divine Deception is my novella set in Western New York. It’s part of Ellora Cave’s succulent series that included stories with fruit as their central theme. This story involves grapes and more specifically … wine. It’s meant to be a fun little read. I hope you enjoy this excerpt from chapter one. Obtaining his life’s [...]

Read more »

This Week at Nina's Place

Well, I got two reviews … on both ends of the spectrum. Night Owl Romance gave Hearts Afire-May 4.25 hearts. Yay! Vee had this to say about my novella Shadows of Fire … “Shadows of Fire was a creative vampire story. I thought the character development was good and the story line interesting. It held [...]

Read more »

Shameless Thursday

I don’t do this very often, but I just finished edits on my newest book with Ellora’s Cave. So I thought I’d share with you thirteen reasons you might like to read my debut novella with them, Divine Deception. 1. It takes place in a vineyard in western NY. And to add credibility to the [...]

Read more »

Next Page »