Oh, Hey, It’s My Turn!

I have totally lost track of the calendar! Every morning, I come to ENaLR to read and share the day’s post. Today, when I came, I saw this was my week. Then I realized it was also my DAY. Yikes! I could have sworn I posted last Tuesday! LOL That’s a problem with the holidays. [...]

Pen Pickiness

Last week, Gwen posted about office supplies, and we had a nice group session for all us of addicts. That make me think of my issues with pens, and I wondered if anyone shares my pickiness. Here are my general criteria for a good pen: 1. Not too fat. 2. Not too skinny. 3. No [...]

Taking a Peek Behind the Scenes

I love release day cheat posts. It’s really hard to come up with a topic when you’re in the midst of an umpty-billion blog tour. But I won’t just hit you with promo and leave. Here’s are the reasons why I wrote this book: 1. I love movies. I want to work on a movie [...]

Geographic Identity

We talked here recently about places we’ve lived, and characteristics of those regions. A lot of us have lived in many different places. But what’s your geographic identity? I was born in England, my father stationed there in the Air Force. But we moved back home, to Southwick, Massachusetts, when I was a year old. [...]

The Social Media Mindset

Twitter is changing how I do…everything. Okay, not everything. Not, like, laundry. But when my husband points out that our squatter is back, I immediately grab the camera. So I can tweet it. Being an author who uses social media, I’m always searching for things I can post. Which means I’m constantly assessing everything that [...]

All You Old Hairspray Users are Killing My Traditions

When I was a kid, we spent a lot of our summer at the beach. Mostly day trips, but in good years, we shared a cottage with friends and family for a whole week. We would leave super early and be one of the first ones on the beach. After swimming, lying on a blanket [...]

Reader Survey Results

I didn’t get a statistically significant number of results to my reader survey, but they were still interesting. (You can still participate! Click here to take the survey.) Respondents were evenly split in how many of my books they’ve read. They all gave the last book they read a 4 or 5. That’s nice, since [...]

Who Are My Readers?

Authors nowadays are being bombarded with the idea of an author brand, and targeting their core readers. The first part I have no problem with. I write high-stakes romantic adventure and paranormal romance, and with a little help from a professional, I came up with “Love with a Shot of Adrenaline” as a catchy tagline. [...]

My Favorite Part of Summer

It’s actually just one of my favorite parts, but that got too long for a title. My kids have both played soccer since they were 5 and 3, respectively, so that’s over a decade of soccer spectatorship for us. For a really long time, that’s the only kind of soccer I was interested in. In [...]

Biggest Change Ever

My husband and I had a meeting last week with Number One’s independent project advisor, so the college process has been on my mind a lot lately. We are officially two years away from graduation, and that is NOT as long a time as it sounds. This is the first huge change in her life, [...]

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