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Continue reading →: From Seed to Story: How Inspiration Grows
It starts with a seed. Farmers know you don’t eat the fruit the moment you plant the seed. You wait. You let the sun warm the soil, coax the shell to crack, watch the tender frond push through the earth. Then the leaves reach for the world. You water. Fertilize.…
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Continue reading →: From Background Noise to Center Stage–When the Side Character Steals the Story
One of my favorite things to do in a series is slip in a side character—sometimes as a villain or villainess, sometimes just a forgettable do-gooder—and then let them fade into the background. For a while. Because the real fun isn’t the entrance. It’s the return. I love bringing them…
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Continue reading →: Learning by Doing: Why Writers Need to Get Their Hands Dirty
Before my smartphone became an extra limb, I carried a small digital camera everywhere. It was always strapped around my wrist—ready to go, snap, click, preserve. My family would roll their eyes when they saw me coming, but when it came time to look back, to find the proof of…
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Continue reading →: She Said Yes… Until He Said This
When alpha males just get it wrong. Getting inside the male brain is always an adventure. You can observe, listen, even read volumes written by men themselves—and still, it’s a mystery. Their ideas of what it means to be a man, a protector, a lover, a partner, a father… It’s…
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Continue reading →: Collecting Details, Building Worlds
I didn’t realize this at first, but not everyone walks through the world collecting details. The tilt of a woman’s hand as she grips her partner’s. The way he doesn’t look at her at all. The golden wash of evening light across a crumbling facade. A busker’s song echoing off…
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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…
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