Hello, Everyone! Do you have your summer reading list ready? What books are you anxious to read? On top of my list are romantic suspense novels. I love it when a smart woman is matched with an alpha male. Recently, I read an interview with a romance editor and she discussed the romance tropes readers …
4/28/19, Ending the Romance Novel
Hello, Everyone! Recently, someone made a comment to me about ending the romance novel. Sometimes, the novel ends too quickly. The reader would like to spend time with the characters and see how they are with each other now they’ve finally admitted they are madly in love and can’t live without each other. Should everything …
1/6/19, Romance: Sweet or Spicy
Hello, Everyone! This is my first blog for 2019, and I remembered to post the correct year in the title. This may be one of the few times I remember to do this for the next month or so. Writing the date is so automatic, I’m sure I’ll slip eventually. And as I plan my …
2/11/18, Happy Valentine’s Day
Hello, Everyone! Isn’t it wonderful that we have one of the most amazing holidays of the year in the middle of winter? I look out the window and see gray skis and brown grass and bare trees and I long for spring. I’m a huge fan of spring because it gives me a chance to …
10/15/17, Romance Movies
Hello, Everyone! I have to applaud the weather man though I’m not too happy with him. He got the forecast right and our beautiful fall vanished under a blanket of snow. The leaves were turning such beautiful shades of orange and gold and red. My husband and I like to take walks along a canal …
8/27/17, Hanging onto Summer
Hello, Everyone! This summer had so many wonderful moments with my niece graduating from college and my nephew marrying a beautiful young woman whom we all love. They honeymooned in Thailand, which I think is so exciting. Then the ultimate summer moment for my husband and me was when we took an actual vacation and …
7/16/17, Summers past
Hello, Everyone! How is your summer? I hope it’s fabulous and relaxing. I used to consider the middle of July the middle of summer, but with school starting the 2nd week of August, it now seems like the end of summer, though it’s very hot, not like summer’s end when I was a child and …
5/7/17, Risking Her Heart
Hello, Everyone! I hope your weekend was wonderful! Here the weather can’t decide if it’s winter or spring. We’ve had several snowfalls, which is good because this climate is normally very dry, but when the temperature vacillates from the eighties one day to the thirties the next, it’s hard to know how to prepare for …