Just came across this photo of me at a Romance Writers of America conference, holding one of my favorite book covers. I don’t remember who took the picture or what happened to the blown-up book cover, nor do I remember what I was thinking with that goofy expression on my face. Care to suggest captions, anyone:

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A very generous neighbor started bringing us huge bags of day old bakery bread two weeks ago–bread she had left over from her distributions to the homeless, so maybe she has decided we look hungry too–and because I can’t stand throwing away food, I had to figure out what to do with all of the bread. I gave some away to other neighbors I know like bread, and that still left us with just under a ton of bread to […]

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I’m re-reading Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art right now and finding lots of reasons to love it all over again. This book never fails to make me want to hurry to the keyboard and get to writing. If you have any kind of creative project you find yourself procrastinating on starting or finishing, I highly recommend the book. I moseyed on over to the author’s website today and read a great post of his on the choices we make. […]

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We adopted a dog from the pound on Easter Sunday this past spring, a long-awaited event in our family. His name at the shelter was Niner, which we couldn’t change fast enough. Wanting to stick with a similar sounding name because we had misguided notions about confusing him with a new one, we named him Reno. He’s a tall skinny pit bull mix with sad-sack eyes and a winning smile who probably has some kind of bird dog in his […]

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It’s been a long time since I’ve done a book giveaway. So here it is. Free books! Whichever books you want. The catch? You’ll have to go on Amazon.com and do a search for my name in the books section to figure out which books you want. I’ll send up to 5 books each to the first 3 people who email me. There’s also a list a few posts back of all my book titles, if you want to go […]

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The hardest thing for me about not being able to write is that I feel like I should keep sitting there at the computer, trying to tough it out. Unfortunately, this martyr’s approach rarely helps and often hurts. Sure, if you’re merely stuck, then sitting there and continuing to slog through the muck until you get to the productive writing again can be a good thing. But if you are truly experiencing the writer’s block that is usually associated with […]

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