Life Really Is Too Short
It’s Fun to Be in the JL-A
This isn’t really my story. It’s Paty’s story and Dave’s story and Ellen’s story. Paty and Dave as in Cockrum. My sister, Ellen Vartanoff, who had a printed copy in her files. Back in the day, mostly in 1966, I wrote a lot of letters to DC Comics with my…
Temporary Superheroine Goes Hollywood!
Why Write About a Ranch?
I Wrote a Gothic Romance
The Ranch Master, or Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Using My Real Name as My Author Name
Discussions about pen names versus real names keep coming up. I use my real name, not merely because it is unique in this country, but also because my name has a history in the comics biz. So why not let people who know me learn about my novels? I’ve used…
Defiant Diva, a Different Kind of Romance Heroine
Writing Defiant Diva was a challenge–because the heroine of this romance novel is the villain of the previous book in the Singers in Love series. That’s right. The villain. How could I get into the head of a destructive opera star and make her sympathetic and believable? They say a…
Wishing for the Real Jane Austen
Such is the love modern readers have for Jane Austen’s witty and romantic novels that many authors have dared to write alternate Jane Austen novels, novellas, short stories, and so on. In fact, there has been in recent years a large outpouring of fiction that attempts to satisfy the fantasy…