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What I know about 2025 is that I will turn 70 this year and it will be a significant year for me. Why? I am switching to historical romance. (My first Regency, a novella, was published in December 2024). I stuck to romance (as it turns out!) but now set centuries in the past. The…

How to Win a BookThis is the last day of our Florida Gulf Coast Sisters in Crime 12 Days of Christmas online event. Seems like everyone is using Facebook and that works for me as Facebook is my friend page. I have Instagram too, but I use that mostly to post whatever books I’m reading.…

This is what’s new in December! I love Christmas! Which is why I have written two Christmas books, one contemporary and one historical. I love reading historical romances and have since I was a tween. To celebrate the holiday and my first historical romance featuring Christmas I have joined with other writer friends in a…
I love Florida truly except in hurricane season. It wasn’t always this way. Apparently there’s a new “hurricane alley” and the Gulf Coast is it. My dad’s town of St Pete got hit with Helene, the first time in a hundred years there was such flooding and loss of life for his city. My dad…
September is a full month for me but not as full as it used to be when I was a teacher. My family has four birthdays in September (and we are not all that big of a family!) I have a writer’s conference at the end of the month. My writing group meets, too, the…