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Leaving ANNALY

Not so long ago I left St. Croix, and my dream house, Annaly (fictionalized as Annalise in the Katie and later novels), for Houston.  Well, in 2007 anyway. I wrote...

The Story Behind My Indie Story

I was so excited, y’all! I got an email from Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing announcing that my novels were included in their Celebration of Great Writing #PoweredbyIndie. Woot!! Since I do...

How Made Up Is Ava Butler, Really?

If you follow me regularly, you are privy to my time in the Caribbean..but what you didn’t know is this: Once upon a time, I lived in the paradise of...

What Gives Me The Right? My Story Behind My Ava...

Lately there’s been a lot of great dialogue in the writing community about the concept of cultural appropriation. Wikipedia, while not the world’s greatest source, defines it fairly well: Cultural appropriation is...

I'm Your Venus: The Story Behind the Story of M...

No spoilers, so I’ll have to be a little cagey, but you’ll discover early on in these novels that Ava’s mother is a devout Catholic who dreamed of her daughter taking...

She’s Bringing Sexy Back: The Story Behind the ...

A few years ago, I wrote three novels about a late-blooming woman named Katie Connell. Some time later, they were published, and the reaction to these books and their characters...