…but this time with answers! My answers to the questions that you all posed while I was at Robena Grant’s blog are up there for you to read. Thanks so much to Roben for having me and to all of you for being interested enough in me and my novel to ask questions. Please come by and check it out!

…in the spiritual precepts of Simple Abundance. You may know Sara Ban Breathnach’s timeless Daybook of Comfort and Joy that was published in the mid-1990s. It is my go-to book when I need to rediscover my own spirituality. Her truths are just as valid today as they were 17 years ago, and every other year, I take up my now-battered copy of the book and reread the meditations—starting on January 1 and reading one each day. I love finding notes that I’ve scribbled in the margins and excerpts I’ve highlighted—ah-ha moments from past years. The six principles of Simple Abundance are gratitude, simplicity, order, harmony, beauty, and joy.  Sara calls…

I’m in the “hot seat” over at Robena Grant’s blog today. It works like this: You comment on today’s blog with a question for me about anything at all, Roben collects all the questions and at the end of the week, she sends them to me to answer. I answer them and then she posts the answers on her blog next week. I’m ready–come on by and ask my anything about my writing, the process, getting published, being a editor…really just anything at all…

…over here at Nan’s house. I am still floating on a little pink cloud over the release of Rule Number One on Tuesday and the fact that today, it hit #2 on the BookStrand Mainstream Top Sellers list (Woot!), but I also have to keep maintaining what passes for normal in my life. So, I went swimming this morning, did a load of laundry, thought about what to make for supper, decided on shrimp,  and got back to work on my work-in-progress (WIP). I’m a little bit stalled on this one, so I’m doing something I don’t normally do—I’m plotting. Ordinarily, I just sit down and write and let the…

Come on by Edittorent, colleague Alicia Rasley’s blog, and check out my first interview as a published author. Alicia and I have known each other for a lot of years and have several Kevin- Bacon- six-degrees moments together during that time. Most recently, I’ve gotten to know her again as colleagues in the Indiana Chapter of Romance Writers of America. I had a terrific time talking to her—it was a lot of fun. Enjoy!   ***Breaking News! My book is #3 on this week’s BookStrand Mainstream Top Sellers list! Wow!!***

It’s here! It’s today! My romance novel, Rule Number One, releases today from BookStrand Publishing. Amazingly, I’m speechless with joy about finally realizing a dream I’ve had since I was ten years old. So, I’m simply going to point you to the book and thank you all for your support of my writing career. A note to sister, PJ: I’m sorry I couldn’t get my very first book published—you know the one I wrote when I was ten? The one where you and Karl Green, the guitarist from Herman’s Hermits fell madly in love and got married and you went on tour with them? Well,  hopefully, this one works for…

For the last three days I’ve been completely unable to focus on writing. Ideas are in my head, the rest of the story for the current  WIP (work in progress) is up there, banging around and forming, but when I sit down to write, nothing happens. This is scary stuff. My friend Roben says that maybe my concentration is off because I have a book releasing in less than a week—probably an excellent point.  My crit partner says to chill out and let it go–the last couple of weeks have been crazy busy with editing gigs and my own book edits, so I should simply relax, do something else, take…

I’m over at the Bettyverse today talking about best friends…but it’s not the conversation you might expect. Stop by and share your thoughts. Also, my debut novel, Rule Number One, is available for pre-sale at BookStrand Publishing and it’s on sale! How can you beat that really?

I’m bugged. It seems that romance novels are the bailiwick of characters who are younger than 50. If 40 is the new 30 and 50 is the new 40, then how come romance after 50 isn’t sexy anymore? Well, folks, I’ve got big news–sexy is timeless.  Excuse me, but two words, Pierce Brosnan. Sean Connery? Jeff Bridges? Denzel Washington, anyone? Richard Gere? And as far as sexy women are concerned–want to talk about Susan Sarandon? Sophia Loren? Goldie Hawn? Helen Mirren? Tina Turner? Me? (Sorry, I couldn’t resist!) Hollywood is beginning to get it. I thoroughly enjoyed the film Something”s Gotta Give—a love story between two people well over age…