Here lies your book boyfriend…naked.

At first I wasn’t going to tell this story. I was like, I can’t write this on my blog! I can’t let people know my book’s less than perfect. My blog felt like a lover I had to confess a potentially game changing secret to. I actually went back and forth…

A coworker sent me a story from the New York Times featuring several strikingly lovely images of women in gowns with natural hair. The text briefly discussed the often misguided politics behind natural hair, mentioning the recent Nivea debacle that referred to a need to ‘civilize’ onself and depicted a…

I do, all the time. I can’t tell if it’s wishful thinking, or if the universe is really tryna drill the idea into my head, that I need to make this romance writing thing work. Case in point, this morning I lost a contributor. It happens, the magazine editor’s lot…

said Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. For me, that means no vacation this year. Which sucks, ’cause I was saving diligently for it. I was planning to visit Savannah, GA’s Dresser Palmer House. I saw myself sitting in quaint, chintz-inspired rooms straight out of Southern Living. With my laptop…

So, Fiona Love is still chugging along in sales, one Kindle download at a time. My sister is convinced I’m not gonna pop on Kindle. That I need to sell actual print copies of my book in the neighborhood where most of the urban romance readers are. She even did…

Excerpt from the middle of erotic romance novel Fiona Love, for sale in the Amazon Kindle store:   “I’m gonna have a strip club for you,” she said now. He laughed as she disappeared into the bathroom. “What?” he yelled over the water running. Fiona emerged a few minutes later…

If you’re anything like me you follow authors, meaning you’ll read everything they write and get real happy when there’s a series afoot.  And when you follow authors you can’t help but notice similarities in the way different characters behave from book to book, or how the author will use similar…

Usually when anyone mentions Matthew McConaughey they probably think of that unfortunate bongo incident, his tendency to be shirtless – not a problem in my opinion – or his other tendency to appear in fairly vapid romantic comedies. But I saw The Lincoln Lawyer last night, and he’s talented. Not…

My friend author Stacy Deanne is taking over my blog today to provide us with a tutorial on how to create the sizzle between characters. Enjoy! During my journey as an author I’ve been asked many questions by aspiring writers. Many have been about creating chemistry for characters. Actually, I…

OK. I just have to write about two special new Facebook friends, romance writers Nevea Lane and Stacy Deanne. They’re sooo helpful. They don’t know me – let’s face it, Facebook friends does not guarantee intimacy – but they’ve gone out of their way to be helpful and to share tips…