I’ve been thinking a lot about cover design lately, and not just because designing book covers is part of what I do for a living. This follows from my post last week about writing in series, something I’d never really planned to do but which sort of fell in my lap as a natural extension of the stories I wanted to tell. Once I embarked on this ( Read more... )

I'm in the midst of a massive overhaul of my website (hopefully to launch in early September, so it coincides with the release of my next book). Part of what I'm doing is breaking my books out into their separate categories, as I realized I'm starting to develop a fairly large backlist, and because I write across a number of genres, I can't expect ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I posted anything here. Darn. And I was doing so much better for a while. Still, the reason for the neglect was a good one - my freelance business really has taken off over the past few months, and between juggling clients and their projects and trying to get my own new release (Blood Will Tell, a science fiction romance ( Read more... )

I’ve had sex on my mind a lot lately. No, not that way (well…ahem). Okay, also in a sort of meta-way, probably brought on at first by the whole PayPal/erotica debacle, and then by a discussion on the Kindleboards by some authors who say Amazon is purposely keeping certain racy titles out of the search function on the site.

When the PayPal thing ( Read more... )

Or you know, you could read three or four. It’s up to you. Smashwords is having a big promotion to celebrate the event, and I have Breath of Life and Heart of Gold on sale for 50% off all week long. All you have to do to get the discount is enter the code “REW50″ at checkout. Here’s the link to my author page at Smashwords:

http://www.smashwords. ( Read more... )

Just because I didn’t have enough social media whatchamathingies to keep me busy, I’ve also signed up for a Tumblr blog. Actually, the idea of Tumblr appeals to me a good deal, just because I find that lots of things catch my eye, but posting about them here or on Facebook or Twitter just doesn’t seem quite right. I have a tendency to download lots ( Read more... )

Just a few bibs and bobs - first off, I’d like to say congratulations to Cathy in California, who is the winner of my Valentine Blog Hop giveaway. She’ll receive a $25 Amazon gift card and a print copy of Heart of Gold. If you’d still like a chance at a free copy of the book, go on over to Joanne Renaud’s blog and comment on my interview there ( Read more... )

Because I’m offering Bad Vibrations for free on February 12-13 (to celebrate my anniversary!), I thought it might be fun to create a sort of travelogue of the places mentioned in the book. I tend to be a very visual writer, so I have these images in my head as I’m writing (especially if I’m writing about places I’ve been or at least driven by). ( Read more... )

Before I go any further, No Return is free on February 4th, 2012. Go forth and download.

Okay, now that we have that out of the way, I thought I’d talk a little bit about the book and why it’s now a part of my catalogue, as it had actually been out and about on Lulu, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble for some time before that. When I wrote No Return, I ( Read more... )

I am so happy to announce that my latest full-length novel, Heart of Gold, has now been released! This was my 2009 NaNoWriMo project (okay, some books take me longer than others to finish!), a steampunk/gaslight fantasy romance that was so much fun, I’m already working on the sequel! (All right, more of a tie-in than a sequel, because I firmly ( Read more... )