I wrote my latest women’s fiction novel featuring five point-of-view characters–three women and two men–in part for my late sister, Ellen Vartanoff. It’s not the story of her life or anything like that. She died of cancer in 2019 but before that awfulness had the great pleasure of taking a…
I visited Wyoming for about a day a long time ago, and I liked the looks of the state. When I decided to write a romance about a rich but entirely too self-confident man, I set it in Wyoming and made him a rancher. In real life, ranches have boundary…
“Meanwhile, back at the ranch,” was a cliché by the mid-twentieth century, and it probably was used for another fifty years previously, the heyday of the American Western. This phrase in the old movie serials switched focus from one scene to another. With Book 4, the Selkirk Family Ranch series…
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…
In 2016, I wrote the first draft of Cowgirl Rescue and then found a lovely cover for it and bought it. That was in July. I didn’t know for sure what the title of the third Selkirk Family Ranch book would be, so I had the cover designer dummy up…
In my newest guest blog post talking about writing, I discuss writing series books. As you may know, I’ve been writing the Selkirk Family Ranch series for a while, and I’m currently finishing up Book 3. At the end of the post, I mention that I’m looking for opinions and…
To celebrate the new cover for the ebook edition of Temporary Superheroine (by talented cover designer Ashley Byland of Redbird-designs.net), it’s on super discount at 99 cents (for a limited time only). Temporary Superheroine is available wherever books are sold. Read a preview and/or buy the book by clicking one…
Here’s the new look for Temporary Superheroine as an ebook, available exclusively on Amazon for now. The classic retro 1960s-style cover remains on the print edition, available at many fine stores including Barnes & Noble, in case that’s the one you prefer. I like them both. How about you?
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…
