Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a small-town Midwestern girl to the core, and I’m writing a series of small-town romances novels that build on each other like the written version of the world’s longest romantic movie. I spend my free time performing unnecessarily complicated culinary feats in her kitchen and dreaming up home improvement projects for my husband to do in our fixer-upper Victorian. My greatest accomplishment so far has been either raising two wonderful children who love to read or designing and digging a goldfish pond by myself. Probably the goldfish pond; it’s really cool.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The first in the series is Worth the Wait, and the one I’m getting ready to release next is Crazy Little Thing. Crazy Little Thing features a character who has been in every one of the books in the Small-Town Secrets series: Ashley, the bartender at The Clipper. Everybody in my books hangs out there, and people already felt like they knew Ashley. However, it turns out Ashley has been plotting something big! If you’ve ever wanted to go where everybody knows your name, you’d love The Clipper. It’s where all the best fictional characters have a drink, and Ashley knows all their secrets.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
It’s just me, my computer and a cup of coffee every morning. Then, weather permitting, I go for a bike ride. During the ride, I think about what’s going in my fictional small town of Fairview. Sometimes I get a really good idea and need to pull over to tap out a note to myself on my phone. I generally write a little more in the evening after dinner.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I read everything. I appreciate good genre fiction as well as the classics. If a book is well-written, that’s all I ask. I’m interested in everything, and that comes out in my characters. Molly in Worth the Wait is a librarian, and she makes references to several classic texts. Lori, in Kiss and Tell, loves the old hot pirate novels and Regency romances. Catarina in Twice Shy loves Rilke, and has one of his poems painted on her bedroom wall. We find out in Perfect Fit what that poem is (and it’s one I actually love so much it’s tattooed on my leg!) In Crazy Little Thing, Ashley the bartender surprises her Harvard-educated boyfriend by bringing up the economic theories of Thomas Picketty. I want my characters to be well-rounded, interesting people you’d like to meet.
What are you working on now?
I’ve gone all the way back to Worth the Wait for the love interest in The Laws of Attraction. If you read it, you remember Sheriff Watkins saving the day for Molly. In The Laws of Attraction, we get to know his back story, and he falls hard for Kelly, a high school friend of his who has just come back to town for reasons of her own after being gone for a decade.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m better at reading than promoting! If you like my books, please share them with a friend.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
I’m still a fairly new author myself, and always willing to listen to advice from others.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I was told to just keep writing. Yes, social media and promotions etc. all need to be done, but if in doubt of the best way to spend my time … write.
What are you reading now?
I know this isn’t very romance-y, but Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Notes From the Underground”!
What’s next for you as a writer?
I want to keep doing the Small-Town Secrets series for as long as people have interest. The world-building aspect of inventing this small town and building on it with new characters who interact with the main characters from past books really interests me. They run into each other in restaurants and parties all the time, and we catch up with them as they have babies and start new careers. These people feel so real to me.
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?
You can’t ask me to choose. I have thousands of books in my house. Don’t ask me to leave any of them behind!
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