Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve been writing since my college days and sold my first book in 2001. Learning Curves, a Harlequin Temptation, appeared on the shelves in 2002. Since then, I’ve had 99 books published, including 84 with Harlequin. I really enjoy series romance, and have penned medieval historicals, romantic sagas, sexy contemporaries and a few suspenseful reads.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
One Night Scandal for Harlequin’s Desire line completed my 9-book McNeill Magnates series. The book gives a behind the scenes look at a movie being filmed on location at a ranch in Wyoming. I was inspired by my own experiences as an extra on movie sets.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I love to write when it’s quiet and when I’m alone, and I will take my laptop most anywhere to find the quiet. Once, when my husband had a band practice in my home, I ended up in a closet to write. I was pretty happy with the nook I created for myself out of a –thankfully– good sized closet.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I fell in love with the romance genre reading medieval historicals by authors like Johanna Lindsey, Julie Garwood and Elizabeth Lowell. Their books made me eager to pick up a pen and try my hand at it.
What are you working on now?
I’m currently working on a series with baseball-playing brother heroes. The Texas Playmakers of Last Stand, Texas will debut in spring 2019.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
This changes all the time! I like to try new promotions for each title to reach new-to-me readers.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Read all you can, and write even more. Good books teach you all the skills you need. Add to that persistence and patience. Keep writing and submitting, and your stories will improve with each manuscript.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Follow your Bliss! I am a big fan of Joseph Campbell, and this idea emcompasses so much crucial life wisdom.
What are you reading now?
Tana French’s The Witch Elm
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m excited for a new series for Harlequin Desire kicking off in November 2019, set at the fictional Mesa Falls Ranch in western Montana.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I take questions like this so seriously, my brain immediately calculating the LONGEST book possible for the most potential reading. A huge anthology of myths? The fattest encyclopedia? But if we’re talking about books I could enjoy again and again, I’d grab something medieval-ish like T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, something fun and heartwarming like a Susan Elizabeth Phillips novel (Nobody’s Baby But Mine?), and something more lyrical like Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar.
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