Aussie Meat Pie

When my hubs and I got married, there were a few things I had to learn to cook. Toast with Vegemite and mild cheddar cheese. Ham and cheese sandwiches with butter on the bread instead of mustard. Pea and ham soup like his mum makes. But the thing I had the hardest time getting right …

Baby Trash Panda!

So yesterday, the Thunder from Down Under and I pulled into our driveway at lunch, and there was this tiny little dark lump near the carport. "What is that?" I asked Thunder. My sister next door has baby kittens at her house, but they're two different shades of orange. My massive Viking of a husband, …

The Passion of Miss Cuthbert

I have a new book out. It’s called The Passion of Miss Cuthbert, and it’s the second in my series of romantic mysteries starring amateur detective Stella Hart. Stella is a silent movie actress in the 1920s whose stepfather owns an English manor house. Her fiancé and partner in crime-solving is George Barrington, Thirteenth Baronet …

Black Romance Matters

I have a book of my own coming out this week, and trust me, I'll be telling you all about it. But watching the news and talking to my friends and reading the internet this week, I feel like it's more important to shine my little spotlight on books from some of the amazing Black …

Con-Tinual! (and ConCarolinas goes online!)

Heya Kittens! Usually right around this time of year, I'd be crowing with glee that ConCarolinas was coming up at the end of the month and that I was going to be there and that I hoped all y'all were going to be there and how it was going to be awesome! But this year, …

Losing My Grip

Heya Kittens. I've missed you. I haven't been around so much the past few months, mostly because I haven't really known what to write. The fall my dad took on November 4, 2019, the little spill in his bedroom we thought was no big deal, has turned out to be a very big deal indeed. …

Three Things I Love (About Winter Knight)

Winter Knight, the book I have coming out on February 11, 2020, is the only romance I've ever written just for me. I love all my kissy book stories, all my heroines, all my heroes. But with Winter Knight, I asked myself, if I was on Amazon or at the bookstore looking for a romance …

North, South, East, West, and the Romance Writers of America

In 1985 when the miniseries North and South first aired on TV, my mother worked for a lady named Miss Rose Cauthen. North and South, for those previously spared by youth or ignorance, was based on a series of historical novels by John Jakes about two wealthy and heroic white guys who meet at West …

An Outlaw Meaner than Krampus

Hey Kittens - in case I haven't mentioned it, there's what I consider to be a really sweet Christmas story in Bury Me Not called "Cowboys and Krampus." Here's a little sneak peek: By suppertime, the snow was drifted halfway up the windows downstairs, and the hotel was full enough to bust. People had drifted …

The Paperback Rack at the Big Star

Every writer has a touching story about their favorite bookstore or library as a child, the place where they discovered the ineffable delights of literature. I can go on at great length about my love for Miss Daisy at the Chester County Library or my swoon of ecstasy the first time I walked into the …