Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I publish the Small-Town Secrets series and am about to release the fourth one. I grew up in a small town and was formerly the editor of a daily paper in another small town, so I know what is really going on in these little towns! The series takes place in Fairview. Each book stand alone, but the series can be read as one long saga. You’ll see the same people in book after book, and you’ll get to know all the local places. We begin with Molly, the director of the public library, and then in the second book we concentrate on Molly’s best friend Lori, an ER nurse. Then, having hit the two most common romance stereotypes, we veer off into new territory and get to know Catarina, a woman of Romany (Gypsy) background who runs an upholstery shop in downtown Fairview. Next we have a young midwifery student we met in an earlier novel when she delivered another character’s baby in quite unusual circumstances. After that we have Ashley, the bartender at everybody’s favorite bar, The Clipper. We’ve seen a bit of Ashley in every book, so she deserves her own book. I have two grown kids and two lovely little grandbabies, and my own marriage would make a great love story: My husband is a European I met when he was in the U.S. visiting, and within 5 minutes I had decided I would marry him. Two years later, I did!
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The first book in the series is called Worth the Wait. I wanted to write about a single mom who has no time for romance. (I once was that woman!) Molly is a dedicated mom of three who is initially reluctant to get involved with David Conrad, who comes into town to move into the old family homestead and to solve the mystery of who murdered his grandfather and great-grandparents. I don’t have any murders in my family, but I know what it’s like to marry with teens and have a happily ever after.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Nope. I’m a disciplined writer because of years in journalism. You park your butt at your computer and you do the work.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’ll read nearly anything. Cormac McCarthy is a favorite. Also Gabriel Garcia Marquez and hundreds of others. I also love Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series.
What are you working on now?
I’m writing the fifth book in the series, featuring Ashley Butler, the bartender at The Clipper. I also write a lot for the website Curvicality.com.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m a better writer than promoter.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
I’m still looking for advice myself!
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write every day.
What are you reading now?
Claire Dederer – Love and Trouble. For the second time.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Fame and fortune, let’s hope. Or at least a decent, middle-class living. I was a poor journalist. I’d like to someday make a bit of cash.
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?
The longest ones possible! Maybe War and Peace and some of the other big Russian classics.
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