BURNING LOVE is the first book I sold to The Wild Rose Press. It began its life as an exercise at a meeting of my writing group. We put names of heroes in one hat, names of heroines in another, and occupations in a third. I picked the names Iris and Osmond. I picked...
Secret Desires: A Romance for the Heart Nothing in Margo Simmons’s life comes easy. She can’t claim the inheritance on a condo apartment her uncle has left to her until she is gainfully employed in a job for a year. She meets the man of her dreams but anguishes over a...
The Count’s Amnesiac Wife I’ve always wanted to write an amnesia trope romance because I love reading them. I particularly enjoy reading married couple amnesia stories where the heroine doesn’t remember being married to the hero because it’s such a quirky situation....
Forbidden Blossom Book 1 in the Skyline Mansion series By Nola Li Barr A decades-old scandal. A mysterious inheritance. Can a young woman survive a family desperate to keep their past buried? 2010. Anne Huang never cared to call anywhere home. But her carefree...
Thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts on backstory and chat about my new release, SECURITY FORCE OF TWO, the first book in my MOUNTAIN TOWN MYSTERY Series. All books in the series can be read as a standalone. How many times have you heard too much backstory...
How did the tale of the slayer Deneas and the dragon Trelleir came about? Usually I start off with a few lines of a premise. Sometimes it even flows into a short story. And that is where I thought what eventually became Fire and Amulet ended. However, fantasy worlds...
I always try to put some new element into each of my stories, something I haven’t written before. So when I was writing THE GIRL MOST LIKELY for the class of ’85 series from The Wild Rose Press, I wanted to give Finn and Cara’s love story a twist, or two, that I...
Those of us who fell in love with series like Vikings, Norsemen, The Last Kingdom, or even Ragnarok on Netflix, went through a kind of withdrawal when those sagas came to an end. By then, we’d grown just a little bit addicted to the atmosphere of ancient Nordic...
Of Water and Dragons started out as a short story set in a mythical land. When I turned it into a novel, I decided to change the setting to ancient Britain. I tried to stick to actual history to create this believable world, but there isn’t a lot of documented...
I’m so excited for the second and final part of my Mermen series to be released! Daisy is such a fun character I really love her. I’ve included the information for book one in this post too. I hope you enjoy reading her story as much as I enjoyed writing her. Blurb:...
