I used to slip inside jokes into my books all the time. Some of them were specific to one person, some of them were specific to a group of people. To use some examples, in Through a Crimson Veil The Crimson Jim bar was named for a guy I worked with. He's also the one that asked me to use Evil Twin Brewery in the story. That's the brand of beer ( Read more... )

Someone said to me the other day that seeing the covers for my books must be old hat and pretty mundane for me. That's not true. My first book came out in 2002 and even now, I anticipate each cover. And if I love it, I become hugely excited.

There are a lot of parts of being an author that are still exciting. OMG, seeing your book on the shelves at ( Read more... )

Last Sunday I talked about my first Nora Roberts' book, today, I'm going to talk about my favorite. Born In Fire.

Born In Fire is the la Nora book I reread the most. I just love this story. The heroine is a glass artist who has a tempestuous relationship with her mother. The hero is a delicious Irish art dealer who wants the heroine's work for his ( Read more... )

Another of my all-time favorite books is Hot Ice by Nora Roberts. It was actually the first Nora book I read and it made her a must-buy author for me. It took me a long time to pick up all her backlist, but I was late enough finding her that she already had quite a number of books out.

Hot Ice features a hero who's a thief and an heiress heroine. ( Read more... )

Truly, every day is an adventure inside my head. Something new always happens. Usually, it's a new story or new characters talking. That's totally normal to me and I take it in stride. I can even shrug off a return of old characters. They rarely come around, but it's occurred. The other night, though, I entered uncharted territory.

It started out ( Read more... )

A recent Twitter discussion reminded me of another favorite book: Debra Dixon's Bad to the Bone. It came out from Loveswept in 1996 and is my favorite series romance story of all time. The thing that made it so awesome to me is the risks the author took.

To briefly summarize the story: The heroine is a retired assassin. She worked through an ( Read more... )

I'm not a huge fan of historical romance. TBH, I find the future infinitely more fascinating than the past, which is probably why I enjoy Science Fiction Romance so much. I get the characterization, relationship and growth arcs, and happy ending that I love, but in the future or on another planet or on a space ship. Historicals…well, I used to buy ( Read more... )

On Twitter this weekend we were talking about books and the conversation had me mentioning a couple of mystery series written by a romance writer. There are romances in both of the series, but they're a subplot, not the main plot. Thinking about these books made me wonder if they were in ebook format yet or not. I went over to take a look.

And ( Read more... )

One of my favorite stories is an old Harlequin American romance by M.J. Rodgers. The Adventuress has a mild-mannered librarian heroine who moonlights as an action/adventure writer who has a recurring protagonist. She's on a helicopter in Hawaii with the hero (who's the pilot) when it crashes thanks to a hijacker. The knock in her head, has the ( Read more... )

I posted the cover for Crave the Night on Tuesday and this got me thinking about sharing my characters from Enemy Embrace with y'all.

The heroine is Nicole Ruiz. She's a psi tracker-an elite vampire hunter-and she's got a personal crusade. She wants to find the vampire who killed her family when she was ten and avenge their deaths. The vampire in ( Read more... )