Category: Writing Life

  • The Cranberry Debate

    Here’s a topic of discussion that turns up every year at Thanksgiving. Do you and your family eat cranberry jelly with turkey? If so, do you buy it in the can? If so – this is the real question – do you slip it from the can so that it’s displayed in the shape of…

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    It’s turkey day here in Canada. The bird is almost ready to go and the table is set. The weather is beautiful – the leaves are just starting to change and it’s supposed to be a sunny day. This is going to be fun. So, wherever you are, take a moment and think of five…

  • Typo in FALLEN

    Audree found a typo. Yikes! There’s an ad on the very last page of FALLEN for GUARDIAN, coming October 2009. The copy on that page lists the heroine of GUARDIAN as Lilia, but that’s not true. Lilia is the heroine of FALLEN. Her daughter Delilia is the heroine of GUARDIAN. Lilia and Montgomery will appear…

  • Accomplishment

    I had a moment the other day, and it made me wonder whether some of you might have similar moments. Someone asked me, quite innocently, how many books I’d written and published. I didn’t know offhand. I had to figure it out. I started counting and was shocked to realize that FALLEN is my 35th…

  • Review Quotes for FALLEN

    Several of my chapter mates read FALLEN and very kindly gave me quotes. First off, Eve Silver, who also writes award-winning post-nuclear, post-Apocalyptic trans-Siberian trucker future-set romance as Eve Kenin, said: “An exhilarating and evocative post-nuclear tale that had me at page one. A smart heroine who must decide whom to trust, a sexy, fallen…