That’s right… today is National Coffee Day! Anyone who knows me knows the love affair I have with my coffee! So, in honor of coffee… here’s a list of fun and interesting facts!! Did you know that coffee beans are actually berry pits? Seeds, not beans! Only two states in the US actually grow and […]
Have you ever noticed how many books have a color in the title? How many of these have you read? Have others we should read? Comment below! Mine are highlighted! The Green Mile by Stephen King Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick Fifty Shades of Gray by E. L. James A Clockwork Orange by […]
His open eyes still stared at me, looking in death as they did in life—empty and soulless. -From Last Night, released 21 September 2019 Last Night is a dark thriller, very different than anything I’ve written before. It explores the darkest corners of the mind, maybe makes you question yourself a little bit, too. It’s a […]
My book released YESTERDAY! This is my favorite book to date, dark and twisted! So I thought I’d share a little bit of that today! It was more than the absence of light that was disorienting. It was the total absence of anything at all. No light, no sound, no nothing. It was complete sensory […]
I’ve been reading these books virtually nonstop for the last 27 years. Yes, you read that right. And, yes, I am old. Okay, not that old. But I digress. At any given point, I might be reading other books, but there is always one of these that I am also reading. The Valdemar world was […]
I didn’t like being that girl. I didn’t like jumping to conclusions before having all the facts. But finding some bitch lounging on his couch with her boobs hanging out was hard to ignore. Holly, from Eclipsed Okay, so this is actually three lines. But I couldn’t use one without the others and still have […]
Let’s talk about romance novels! Sometimes it seems like romance is the most hotly contested genre out there. There are the naysayers, the ones that dismiss the entire genre. And, in my opinion, that is a travesty. Dismissing any genre, usually based on some preconceived (and often wrong) idea of what the genre is really […]
Today is National Grandparents Day, so I thought I’d share a couple of teasers starring Grandma Fiona of Kissing Frogs, my debut novel. She’s a fiesty witch, literally, whose magical skills sometimes are less than ideal. Grandma Fiona was inspired by a few Silver Goddesses. One was Baddie of Instagram fame, feisty and irreverent as […]
The crowd changed my name as I raced toward the goal, snow flying as my skates bit into the ice. -Sparrow, from Last Call Sparrow is one of my favorite characters I’ve written. She’s been through some stuff, but she doesn’t let it take her down. She’s secure in who she is and what she […]
This month is release month for my long anticipated thriller, Last Night. I can’t wait for this book to be out in the world! To think it started from a short, 2500-word college exercise! That’s right… it started as a paper for a college writing class I took a few years ago. The teacher asked […]