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Wrapping up my 2025 reading year
Happy New Year! Absolutely no idea where the time goes anymore, but hard to believe 2025 is now over – and it was another great year in books. Once again, I met my Goodreads Reading Challenge for 2025, reading 46 books of my proposed 45. A whopping 14,622 pages of fabulous books. And yes,…
Read MoreMy time travel novel, Dark Blue Waves, is having a 99 cents sale
It’s the end of the year, and who doesn’t need a bit more romance, fantasy – and Jane Austen – in their lives? I have a 99 cents/pence BookBub deal taking place tomorrow on my novel Dark Blue Waves in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom … and I decided to extend it to the…
Read MoreA wrap-up of my WFWA-authored novels read in 2025
Each year, I do a wrap-up of the novels I’ve read that are authored by Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA) authors. As a fellow member of WFWA, I may be a bit biased, but I go out of my way to include novels by WFWA in my annual reading … and I have not yet…
Read MoreFeisty Deeds II launch – and Editors’ interview
Sooooo excited that tomorrow our new anthology, Feisty Deeds II: Historical Tales of Batches and Brews, will be launched. You can order your copy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Apple Books. This is a fabulous collection of stories by twenty-five talented authors, with stories spanning centuries and the globe. As one of the…
Read MoreRecycle! What authors can learn from artists
Last weekend, I was in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, France. It was a small but interesting collection, with a few artworks by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) I’d only seen in textbooks, but never in person. The most well known in the collection was La Grèce sur les ruines de Missolonghi (1826), depicting the attempted…
Read MoreNew Prairies book review for Feisty Deeds II
Excited we just received our first editorial review for Feisty Deeds II: Historical Tales of Batches and Brews. Hoping this is the first of many positive editorial reviews. If you want to see what The Prairies Book Review had to say about our collection, read the full review below. A sweeping, intimate, and beautifully told…
Read MoreFeisty Deeds II up on NetGalley – seeking reviewers!
How exciting! Our second edition of the Feisty Deeds anthology is now up on NetGalley for early reviews! Feisty Deeds II : Historical Tales of Batches and Brews is seeking early reviewers. So get on over to NetGalley and request your copy today! I am one of the five co-editors of this collection (and a contributing…
Read MoreA look back at Feisty Deeds : Historical Fictions of Daring Women
As my “Feisty Editors” and I are hard at work preparing our anthology Feisty Deeds II for placement on NetGalley and (lots of!) early reviews, I thought it was a good time to remind readers about Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women. A recipient of an impressive six book awards, this historical fiction anthology brings…
Read MoreMy In The Shadow of The Apennines is on sale
For the past few years, my author friend Elaine Aucoin Schroller and I have run sales on our World War I novels. We do this for a week, honoring both Indie Author’s Day on 5 November and Armistice Day on 11 November. You can pick up my In The Shadow of The Apennines and Elaine’s…
Read MoreSeeking a ghostly tale for Halloween? Rome’s Last Noble Palace (on sale)
Happy Halloween! ‘Tis the ghostly season, and I hope you have spooky reading to accompany you this holiday season. My Rome’s Last Noble Palace is on sale: Two women. Two different centuries. One attic room My dual timeline novel set in Rome of 1896 and near present is having a 99 cent BookBub promotion on Sunday…
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