I want to welcome you to my blog by telling you a little bit about myself. As a child, I always loved stories. I loved reading them and making them up. For many years, I had trouble telling the truth. I tended to embellish, let us say.
My father wanted me to major in French and Spanish, but in
second year French, I rebelled and quit going to class because I didn’t want to
learn to say the same thing I could already say in English and Spanish in
another language. He said, “What do you want to major in?” and I said,
“English.” He swore I could never do anything of any value with an English
major. But I’ve had so much fun.
I taught English until I had my first child. Suddenly when
he was born and I was home all day, I thought that if I ever wanted to write,
now was the time. Incredibly with a small baby and real estate to manage I
wrote 8 hours a day. I really don’t remember ever dreaming that some day I
wanted to be a writer, but I liked lots of creative pursuits.
Babies nap and have their quiet spells. I trained my darling
son to a playpen, and he would play in the late afternoon at my feet while I
typed. I did this even though my mother-in-law warned me he would be stupid
because I wasn’t stimulating him enough. I believed that he needed to develop his
imagination. He turned out just fine, and I became a writer.
It took me three years and a million words to get my first
book, MIDNIGHT SURRENDER, published. And I’ve been writing ever since. Not that
there haven’t been a lot of bumps in the road, the latest being, I bought
myself out of my last multiple book contract and have decided to self-publish.
This is my most recent book.
Find it on Amazon here!
Find it on Amazon here!
Having a publisher that gets you onto bookshelves all over
the world has been a wonderful experience. But I’ve had to write to very
specific guidelines for the lines I’ve written for and, therefore, had to
fulfill very specific editorial visions. Vast as my ignorance is in the
self-publishing arena, what I am enjoying the most is having more control,
especially about the kind of stories I choose to tell.
In the near future I will be publishing a series of
contemporary romance novels set on a legendary ranch in Texas that will not be
all that different from what I was doing for Harlequin and yet they will be
completely my own.