The first Urban Farm Fresh Romance, Secrets of Sunbeams releases soon, and I’ve had fans ask how I came to choose a setting for this series. I’d erased a large part of the map of northern Idaho for the original Farm Fresh Romances, but I wanted to play a bit closer to reality this time…
I’m so excited to show you the new workstation in my little house! We haven’t had a desktop computer in many years. I can’t remember how long, actually. Ten years? Maybe longer? Part of the reason is that our house really is small, and a desktop machine takes up a lot of dedicated space. Sometimes…
What says “fall” more than a rural fall fair? You may argue for fallen leaves, bonfires, or canning that last hundred pounds of tomatoes, but a fall fair definitely ranks up there. So when I was writing Team Bride, the Riverbend novella set in autumn, it seemed the fall fair would be a natural setting…
If you’ve been around here for a while, you know that I used to blog several times a week. I also blogged at To Write a Story and, in my heyday, had a column on three additional sites. Early in 2014 I made several changes. I stopped the writing posts and two of the columns,…
The city of Helena, Montana, will enjoy Christmas at the Cathedral this Sunday evening. How I wish I could be there! When I wrote More Than a Tiara, my half of Snowflake Tiara, I knew Marisa and Jase needed to attend this performance. Angela and I visited the Cathedral of St Helena last fall (with…
Did you have an invisible friend when you were young? Do (or did) your kids have such a friend? I didn’t. I transferred my imagination to paper dolls and real dolls as a preschooler and play-acting with friends when I was a little older. Now, of course, as an author, I have multitudes of imaginary…