You’ve heard me say it before—there’s nothing quite as exciting as getting your first look at the cover of a book. And this time it took my breath away. Jenny at Seedlings Design Studio extracted the vision from out of my head and turned it into reality. (It’s not the first time she’s done that,…
This week, I have a fun surprise that I’d like to share with you. I’ve teamed up with 45+ fantastic authors to give away a huge collection of “sweet and mild” Small Town Contemporary Romances to two lucky winners, plus a brand new eReader to the Grand Prize winner! You can win our anthology containing…
Only three little words. But like other things that take three words, there’s a whole lot of other stuff going on behind them that sometimes make a response difficult–even impossible. So when my dissertation supervisor asks, “What’s it about?” in our very first meeting this past week, I kind of choked. “Well, a lot of…
According to the student handbook, my supervisor and I are to meet for an hour every two weeks to talk over the thesis project, solve any problems, and exchange school requirements and ideas. With distance students like me, this means not walking into his office, but having a phone call or Skype. Bless the inventors…
Anyone in my family will tell you that when I come to visit, I have to have my beach day. Some of my earliest memories are of playing in the sand with bucket and spade, which at twelve became stooping over the sand with my marine life guidebook, which as an adult became walking on…