Author of Pacific Northwest Love Stories
If you subscribe to my monthly newsletter, you will have already read this post. If not, please enjoy. This December, instead of posting just my annual gift guide, I thought it would be interesting to take a look back through my phone and put together an essay of the year 2020, and what it was like living…
BOOKISH NEWS Recently I bit the bullet and sent out my unedited manuscript to my beta readers. It’s a scary thing, putting yourself out there for the world to see. I imagine it feels like walking around the grocery store without any clothes on. Everyone staring, everyone thinking thoughts about you. However, as tough as…
If you subscribe to my newsletter, you’ll know that I’ve had a bit of stage fright with respect to this new novel. You will also know that despite my fears, I have decided to go ahead with releasing it to my beta readers by the end of the month. Eek! As for the rest of…
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If you follow me on social media, or know me personally, you know how much I LOVE and highly recommend The Kiss Quotient,by Helen Hoang. “Combining elements of 50 Shades Of Grey, Pretty Woman and Crazy Rich Asians, The Kiss Quotient follows Stella, a brilliant econometrician on the autism spectrum who knows everything about algorithms but nothing about romance. In an effort to…
Sometimes love scenes are difficult to write. Your mind might be thinking about what to make for dinner, or what to do about that weird sound the car is making, or if tomorrow is trash day. It’s not always easy to focus on how to describe two characters falling in love, or lust, as the…
I was asked the other day to name my top ten favorite books. And although a huge number of books came to mind, ranking and sorting them down to just ten is like asking a parent to pick favorite child. It’s impossible. Maybe it would have helped if the question had been posed in a…