Green Magic
I’m a native Californian. It’s a pretty cool state. We have beaches, mountains, movie stars. Lots of sunshine. And avocados! I didn’t actually think too much about what’s also known as the “alligator...
View ArticleThrow Down at the B&N
I didn’t mean for it to happen, honestly. My writer friends and I went over to B&N for coffee during our girls’ night out, and we behaved as usual, talking, laughing, enjoying being together. We...
View ArticleFamily Food
Many Cajun recipes begin with “First you make a roux”: crawfish étouffée, gumbos of all kinds, jambalaya. Roux is sort of the Cajun equivalent of white sauce–flour browned in oil until it is just this...
View ArticleWhy I’m No April Fool
Believe it or not, April Fool’s Day jokes go back a long, LONG way. Someone did a spectacular one in 1860 when they invited people to watch the washing of the white lions at the Tower of London. The...
View ArticleI’m Just Not That Into Him
I saw Thor for the first time last month. I enjoyed it moderately. But after watching it, I confess I didn’t get why everyone is so gaga over Chris Hemsworth. I mean, he’s cute and all, and I do like...
View ArticleTen Reasons I Love Meeting Readers
I just got back from RT, where I met lots and lots of readers (and booksellers and other authors, but mostly readers). It was so much fun! And here’s why I love it: They talk about characters as if...
View ArticleWill and Jane and the Street Team
Yes, I know I’m behind the curve on this. Yes, I know every author and their mother (maybe even their father) has a street team. But I thought it would be fun, so I’m doing it, too. For those of you...
View ArticleSong Sung Old
Okay, you won’t understand my blog title unless you’re a Neil Diamond fan, but it fits my subject. Because, you see, I WAS a Neil Diamond fan in my youth. And then I wasn’t for years and years, and...
View ArticlePlaying with Dolls
Okay, so I don’t play with them, but I HAVE them. Is that weird? I like having little fake people around me. My former assistant used to be creeped out by dolls, however, and I know that a lot of...
View ArticleWill and Jane And What the Duke Desires
I don’t write many dukes. As a matter of fact, I’ve written only three in my entire 35-novel career (43 works, if you count the short stories and novellas). I’m not even sure why. I just haven’t. But I...
View ArticleInsta-Love
I’ve seen this term a good bit recently, mostly in reviews of my “Ten Reasons to Stay” novella, in which the hero and heroine meet and fall in love in the space of one day and night. Those reviewers...
View ArticleMashing It Up in Song
My assistant just introduced me to a phenomenon I had not encountered: mash-up songs, where someone takes one popular song and combines it with another popular song. This isn’t sampling, where people...
View ArticlePretty Food
That’s what my husband calls cuisine that involves the chef painting various sauces on a plate or arranging lettuces in fancy designs or creating artistic sculptures out of crab and grapefruit and...
View ArticleSome Stores that I Used to Know
I miss Waldenbooks (I’m probably not the only one). They carried oodles of romances, the booksellers were always friendly and helpful, and they knew lots about what was coming out. Plus, the stores...
View ArticleBliss in the kitchen
I am in bliss. On every black tarred pavement in every shopping center across the southwest, vendors have set up their chile roasters and spend the day roasting long green chiles for stray motorists...
View ArticleVacation, Had to Get Away
With apologies to the GoGos, I really, REALLY needed to get away a couple of weeks ago. So Hubby and I and Nick took a family vacation for the first time in two years (that’s the trouble with being...
View ArticleWill and Jane Meet Blackbeard and Anne Bonny
Ah, pirates. I do love a good pirate romance. But somewhere around ten years ago, they petered out. You hardly see them anymore, despite the popularity of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. I’m...
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