I write both romance and women’s fiction novels. They are very different even though they may contain many of the same elements. A romance has to focus on one key romantic relationship above all. A women’s fiction novel can be about multiple relationships and characters. My women’s fiction novel, Summer…
These visuals were made in my Canva class, but as you can see, their legibility is a work in progress.
For the second Temporary Superheroine novel, Crisis at Comicon, I dreamed up several over-the-top action sequences, culminating in one big blowout of a scene. Writing the third Temporary Superheroine novel (which is currently without a title), I’ve sent my reluctant but intrepid heroine Chloe back to the mirror universe, where…
From this and that I was in Valparaiso, Chile, walking down a narrow street filled with flowers with a lovely young woman who was acting as a personal guide, when she asked me how I got my ideas. I answered, “From this and that,” which was the exact truth. One…
In Summer in the City, my first women’s fiction novel, I combined mythic, romantic Manhattan with a real-life Greenwich Village co-op apartment building. Why do this? Because people have fantasies of coming to New York and living in a brownstone on a tree-shaded city street, near the action yet sheltered…
Saving the Soldier is JD’s story. Jesse Dwayne Selkirk is Baron Selkirk’s younger brother, the cocky young man who chased the girls and always won the game. When he joined the Army and was deployed to the Middle East, JD matured from a teenager into a man. But then his…
I just went through my box of oldest letters. Fifty years ago I wrote a lot to the editors of DC Comics, which at the time was still hiding under the name National Periodical Publications, Inc. I also wrote to the subscription department. As was their habit back then,…
If you’ve just read my first sweet contemporary romance, Captive of the Cattle Baron, you might be wondering if I’m going to tell JD and Tess’s stories. The answer is YES! Saving the Soldier, JD’s story, is in the final stages of production and will be published soon. I’ll announce…
Michael N. Kalantar’s book, Russia Under Three Tsars, has been a project for me ever since I discovered the typed manuscript in the wall of books on Russian history at my mother’s house four years ago. Sadly, this was after her death, so I couldn’t ask her about a literary…
Check out my most recent blog visit talking about Captive of the Cattle Baron. Beverley Bateman’s Blogging with Beverley now includes my detailed explanation of how to rewrite a scene to shift who instigates it, and why that can be a good idea. And there’s an excerpt, of course! (Or,…
