A little after 11 p.m. last night, I finished my 16th book, Her Billionaire Spy, for National Novel Writing Month. I’ve written 50k words in 5 days before, so it almost felt anti-climactic to celebrate writing one in 30. In light of so many other projects I was trying to […]
author life
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, […]
How to write a clean billionaire romance
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, […]
My writing routine
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 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 – ...
I am at 23,208 words towards Jockeying to Jeopardy, knocking out 2,976 words today sprinting with my fab writing buddies. Which means I am nearly to the halfway point of a viable novel. Woo-hoo! I say “viable” because on the minimum, my goal is to write 50k words. But 60k […]
Nearly halfway!
I almost didn’t want to go back today. By three p.m. my seven-day social media fast (off Facebook, Twitter & Instagram as suggested by our LDS Church prophet) was over. But I waited until after dinner, Family Home Evening, and a nice evening stroll with the family before checking Facebook. […]
