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To Market To Market

Okay, so with all the book noise and chatter out there authors are always trying to figure out how to be heard in the din of thousands of books. We’re always trying to find that little gadget that will lead a reader to our books. One reader actually said “an author’s promotional item is like a little gift to [...]

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Which Way to the Book?

Seven years ago when I began this writing journey my vision of how a book would go from my imagination to a manuscript to the readers’ hands seemed like a pretty well-worn path. The whole author —-> agent —-> publisher direction was the only avenue I understood. Enter digital books and small presses and publishers [...]

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Six More Cheats 12/4

Welcome everyone! Sundays I share 6 sentences from one of my books. (My apologies about last week, bad weather and circumstances made it impossible for me to post.) But since so many visitors enjoyed Cheat Her With Charm the last few times I posted, I thought I’d share six more from another perspective…

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Where in the World is Nina?

So today I have to think about doing some Christmas shopping. Mind you, I used the word think. I haven’t quite gotten to the actual motion of doing it, but hey, we’re counting down to a little less than 3 weeks and … what the heck? I’m not in panic mode … yet! In the [...]

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Let’s REVIEW the facts

Authors love to write. It’s what we do. There’s an internal drive to turn the voices in our head into a book. Regardless of that fact, it is very scary to send our babies out into the world and risk rejection. Of course we think our manuscripts are awesome. Beautifully crafted and entertaining. Our families [...]

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Sunday Six 11/20

As a continuation of last week’s six, I thought I’d share another from Cheat Her With Charm from the hero’s perspective. Peter didn’t want to admit he hoped meeting a strange woman in the honeymoon suite of a Boston hotel would fill the desperate void in his heart. He knew what people would think and what [...]

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Come On Down!

So how far can an author push the boundaries with their characters before you stop reading? I’m asking this question at Nine Naughty Novelists today. (There’s also a weeeeee bit-o-promotion going on for my newest release, Cheat Her With Charm and I’m giving away a book! I hope you’ll stop over. Tweet This Post

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Let’s not Cheat the Six 11/13

Welcome to Six Sentence Sunday. This week’s six come from the opening of my newest sexy romantic suspense CHEAT HER WITH CHARM. Meghan Tilling’s body quaked with fear and the bone-chilling thirty-eight degrees of the cooler where she was trapped. She pressed her forehead against the icy metal of the door. Her palm caressed its [...]

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Shouting From the Rooftop!

It’s here! FINALLY! It’s taken more months than I’d like to admit, to say that the third and final book in the Tilling Passions series is finally out in the world! Yay! Yes, this book was previously published and I LOVED it when it went out into the world, but ya know … I’ve learned [...]

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Conflicting Advice

Opinions are like noses … everyone’s got one..and they all smell! Okay, so that’s not exactly how that saying goes, but I thought I’d clean it up for my public. Anyway, the point is, no matter where you turn in the writing world, someone has some tidbit to help you on your way. Unfortunately, much [...]

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