Talk to me about writing craft for any length of time and you’ll hear me compare writing to dieting. One method just doesn’t do it long term. At least, that was the way it was in my house growing up where my mom was always trying the latest dieting fad to keep her weight down. [...]
We’re just a few days past Thanksgiving and I’m still working my way through turkey leftovers. It’s making me nostalgic for the weekend I spent in Oklahoma when I was there visiting the restaurant I wrote into my two contemporary western romance series set in Oklahoma. Yes, I write real locations into my books, and [...]
When I talk to other writers they often ask how I manage to get everything done. I find this funny because I’m not the most prolific of writers (I write about 3 books a year), but I do have a small handful of part-time jobs and three kids. My short answer is I write everywhere [...]
An Excerpt from The Princess & The Pea Her Highness the Crown Princess Cassandra Catherine Anna Marie von Lieberhaven turned away and closed her eyes. Oh, God, she thought, waves of relief and terror still washing through her with equal force. What am I going to do? No more than three months earlier, she had [...]
Hi there! My name is Melissa West, and I am the author of RACING HEARTS, book 1 in the Hamilton Stables series, featuring horseracing and a second chance at love. When I set out to write RACING HEARTS, I knew I wanted to focus on a small, Southern town, and to do it, I needed [...]
I think if there is one question I've heard more than any other, by far, it is 'Where do you get your ideas?' One of my friends always answers with, “Well, there's this little shop on 51st in New York, and they have them on sale two for the price of one.' Actually, the answer [...]
Hello and thanks for joining me on my blog tour for my latest Brides of Blueberry Cove release, SNOWFLAKE BAY! And thanks so much, Shelley, for having me here as a guest blogger. My latest Blueberry Cove miniseries, The Brides of Blueberry Cove, tells the stories of the McCrae sisters. I’m from a family of [...]
Write what you know is something people say a lot, but it’s a piece of advice I haven’t been able to take to heart quite yet. Why? The simple truth: for me it would be boring. It’s not that I don’t love my life, because I do. I’m an Air Force Wife, and I’ve been [...]
Several years ago I decided I'd had enough of my kids not helping around the house. I know I'm a nurturer, but I was being run ragged. Summer came and I decided I was on strike. Yup, you heard right. Strike. I didn't make one breakfast or lunch and the only dinners I cooked were [...]
Trying her best to ignore the music Miss Letitia had picked for the service, Brooke clenched her hands together to keep them still and wondered if she could get up to give her own eulogy to the little lady they were remembering today. Not one thing. They hadn't allowed one of Mamie's requests to be [...]
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