So, I know I was supposed to write a year in review post yesterday, but since I plan to both look behind at 2014 and ahead at 2015 in this post, I hope you’ll forgive me. Last year, I totaled up my word count for the year. I’m not going to do that this year, … Read more
Just a quick update here: Summer Chaparral is revised and off to the editor again! I’m tentatively planning for an October release for that book. Tentatively. Also, I made up a new cover for An Artful Entanglement! It’s the same model, same color scheme, etc–just closer to how I picture the heroine of this book. … Read more
Apologies for the cheesy post title. I’ve finally updated my website to includes covers, blurbs, and tentative release dates for all my series. Took a little long than I had anticipated, but I think it’s been worth the wait. You can read about the first in my Western historical series, Summer Chaparral, here. This book starts off my Las … Read more
OK, so this post isn’t really about housekeeping; it’s about a conversation between my husband and me. I should point out that my husband and I are a pair of smartasses and that everything said here is said with equal amounts of snark and love. (As my stepfather was fond of saying, “If I’d wanted a smartass, I’d have … Read more
Versions of this post have been simmering in my mind for months and now it’s finally time to write it. (Don’t worry, like any good romance, it has a happy ending.) As you might notice if you’ve ever visited my book page, I write two different series. Both are set in the same period and … Read more
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that scientists usually marry other scientists. Not always, but usually. There are numerous reasons for this: a shared language (science can be a language unto itself), proximity (if you work long hours, it’s hard to meet people outside of work), and the simple fact that for a scientist, your relationship … Read more
In the interests of full disclosure, I have to admit I don’t actually have a writing cave. I have a desk, piled high with Very Important Papers that need to be filed, books for research, books on writing, and a snake’s nest of charging cables for our iThingys. It faces a window that looks out … Read more
The common conception of cells is that they are blebby sorts of things, amoeba-like, floating in a nutrient soup with everything they need to survive safely contained within their membrane. Maybe an illustration from a biology textbook is coming to mind even now. Neurons aren’t like that at all. Yes, they have a round, blebby … Read more
Yesterday, I finished my second full length novel! Well, to be honest, finished is maybe kind of too strong. When I write first drafts, they are very terrible–it’s really only dialogue and telling at this point. I force my characters to run the course of the plot so that I can figure out how they … Read more
So, I finished the novella I was working on, the one that is a companion to Summer Chaparral. (Which also happens to be my very first finished novel!) I intended this novella to be a romance about two nice people, whose very niceness gets in the way of them getting together. But as I was … Read more