I have been published since 2014, but I didn’t encounter as much commercial success until I wrote in a hot-selling genre this summer: clean billionaire romance. How it started was, I attended a writer’s retreat in late June of this year. By August, I launched a clean billionaire romance series, […]
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Last night, my hubby finally gave in to watching Crazy Rich Asians with me and I loved it! (He admitted he had fun, too.) It gave me ideas of how billionaire romances could be done, if you want to go all out. As a setting and culture, Singapore was amazing. […]
Crazy Rich Asians: A case for those tuxes
Last night, my newest novel Her Billionaire Bodyguard broke into the top 100 in three categories: Clean & Wholesome (#20), Inspirational (#51) and Billionaires (#78). In the overall paid category, it hit #1486. I didn’t buy ads but mainly swapped newsletters with other authors. Here are some things that helped […]
How to break into Amazon’s Top 100
I just went 40 hours without sleep. Really. I was juggling picking out stock photos for a 5-book series and working with two different designers on two different series, while trying to finish revisions on book 2 of my billionaire romance series to get to the editor this weekend. Whew, […]
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To my fellow parents who are watching their best-laid plans take a backseat to summer and often, to kids. This pic was taken of me and my kids 9 years ago. I am looking at it with a lump in my throat thinking they are all going off or back […]
To everything, there is a season
I just finished revising my 12th book and sent it to my editor at 3 a.m. this morning. I wish I could say that along with this achievement, there’s fireworks and cake. (Well, okay, there is strawberry rhubarb pie. Yay!) But it mostly comes with exhaustion, and an eye directed […]
Celebrating with pie
This is Part 3 of a 3-part series. For five days, from June 26-30, 2018, I wrote a 50,000-word contemporary romance novel after an epiphany at a writer’s retreat. Read Part 1 – Journal here. Read Part 2 – Pre-Writing here. Her Billionaire Bodyguard is now published. Check it out […]
How I wrote a 50,000-word novel in 5 days – ... Recently updated !
This is Part 2 of a 3-part series. For five days, from June 26-30, 2018, I wrote a 50,000-word contemporary romance novel after an epiphany at a writer’s retreat. I journaled about it here in Part 1. Her Billionaire Bodyguard is now published. You can check it out here. These were […]
How I wrote a 50,000-word novel in 5 days – ... Recently updated !
This is Part 1 of a 3-part series. From June 26-30, I wrote a 50,000-word novel in 5 days. Her Billionaire Bodyguard is now published. You can check it out here. Below is the play-by-play of how I did it. Friday, June 22 Initially, I just wanted to write a […]
How I wrote a 50,000-word novel in 5 days – ... Recently updated !
I did it! I wrote a 50, 021 word novel in 5 days! I had already pretty much wrapped up my story at 43k, but I wanted to technically reach the 50k mark so I doggedly chased that number by adding several scenes. I know it was crazy, but I […]
