My Latest from Mills & Boon Bk 3 Vows and Vikings coming Feb 2022

Being “realistic” is the last thing you should try to be if you want a great life.

“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin #writingcommunity #writerslife #amwriting #writingquote

make your own luck 🤞🏻😃

A Venetian Nobildonna’s dressmaker accidentally steps into her destiny: A MASQUERADE MARRIAGE to dashing textile merchant, Zheng Ma. 🎭 To save Zheng’s trade deal, they agree to pass Cecilia as a foreign princess. But can they mask their mounting desire? #HarlequinHistoricalPitch

1688 - The Duke of Antrim’s brother, Callum McDonnell, is content to live as a rakish soldier until he is sent on an impossible mission: Retrieve the daring spy Eliza, THE DUKE’S RUNAWAY fiancée, without succumbing to the forbidden passion that ignites! #HarlequinHistoricalPitch

Tweethearts, y’all... *wheezes* The Harlequin editor *fetches paper bag* just liked BOTH of my historical pitches and *breathes heavily into the bag* requested that I submit them

Dear reader, What happened next, I am not proud to admit. She went down an unproductive rabbit hole of researching noble titles in Prussia during the 17th century. She was, in fact, not 'in it to win it'.

One sent in 🍀 🤞🍀 Wish me luck!

(Watching Outlander. Jamie is in his kilt. He walks out the door, the camera follows as he leaves the door open...) No one: My husband: Close the door! You in North Carolina, cuz.

I’m at that stage of a breakup where no one can take me anywhere because I’m a giant bummer. I’ll see someone drinking lemonade and get verklempt, and they’ll ask, “Let me guess, she loved lemonade?” and I’ll be like “Not *sobs* particularly but she *sobs* used straws sometimes.”

Not “reply Twitter” - real question: How much dialogue is too much? I’m in a weird funk where I think I may be writing too much dialogue and not enough exposition? What’s the rule of thumb for balance?

Callum understood the importance of this moment, however life had given it to them. This would be the first kiss he would offer his wife. It was a kiss in the midst of a storm, a kiss that had no hope, but he would do everything he could to make it the right one. #FridayKiss

Let’s goooooo! 25k / 70k today. These last couple of chapters went a little slowly - let’s hope I’ve got some momentum going again #amwriting #historicalromance #romance #WritingCommunity

My morning writing routine turned into lunch-packing & please put on your shirt, did you go to the bathroom, please put on your shirt, wash your hands, PLEASE, we're going to be late, please for the LOVE OF GOD PUT ON YOUR SHIRT, 2-hour, 4-city bus, roundtrip school drop-off time

If you’re driving your amphibious car in Fort Meyers, watch for sharks in the road.