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Continue reading →: The Myth of the Evil Stepsister (and Why She’s Boring Me to Tears)
If you’ve read more than a handful of romance novels—or watched a single vertical movie—you’ve seen her. The evil stepsister. The queen-bee cheerleader nemesis. The psycho ex-girlfriend. She’s the cardboard cutout villainess who’ll do absolutely anything to ruin the heroine’s life: lie, cheat, steal her identity, steal her man, frame…
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Continue reading →: Panning for Gold: The Joy (and Madness) of Getting Feedback as an Indie Author
Getting feedback when you’re an independent author is a lot like panning for gold. There’s grit under your fingernails, water in your boots, and way too much time in your own head asking, “Is this nugget actually gold… or just another shiny rock that’s wasting my time?” Over this past…
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Continue reading →: The Sunbeam that started it all
When I was writing the Beaumont Series, I always knew Teddy’s story would be different. There were faint glimmers of it in Isabella’s book (Forbidden Love), but nothing overt—just a whisper of something… more. Because Teddy isn’t just special. She’s extraordinary.A woman with an almost supernatural warmth, that sunbeam glow…
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Continue reading →: Meet the Beaumonts
My first series, The Beaumonts, is pure found-family chaos: young, brilliant, a little wild, and definitely over the top. They crash headlong into their perfect matches—ex-military, mafia, and other dangerous types—and every book expands the world they live in. The stories stand alone, but reading them in order? That’s where…
