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In anticipation of the release of my second Secret Shopper Mom Mystery, License to Shop, Choosy Bookworm is offering Book 1 to 30 reviewers. Shop and Let Die.

If you're interested in a cozy mystery series starring a secret shopping mom, please hop over and request a review copy of Shop and Let Diefrom Choosy Bookworm!

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Napping on Jungle Time

Motherhood isn’t for the weak. Especially when the mom in question has been up all night caring for a sick child. Sometimes taking a leaf from Tarzan’s jungle, and sleeping with one eye half open is the only option.

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Queen of Hearts

Joachaela lives in a world where women care for the hearts of their family, literally. She has kept the secrets of her Heart Room safe within herself for many years. But her daughter’s wedding brings the risk of exposing those secrets, if Joachaela cannot find a way to display her husband’s strong, beating heart and reassure the kingdom that all is well.

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Send to Kindle Going From Word One to a Career as a Novelist
To help celebrate National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), Webucator (a national training company) asked me to answer some questions on my writing life. If you’ve always wanted to write a novel, it isn’t too late to try it this year, sign up with NaNoWriMo and give it a whirl.

What were my goals when I started writing?
I started writing very young. I wrote plays for my sisters and I to perform, and I had a sixth grade teacher encourage...

Send to KindleThe True Story Behind The Cinderella Fairytale

I’ve been working on a new fantasy series for a few years now. The Million Word Adventure has pushed me to get it drafted, along with a few of the 1,000 short stories that will reveal the true stories behind familiar (and unfamiliar fairytales). The first story to be unveiled is “Maiden Ash,” a retelling of the Cinderella myth.

Isn’t the cover gorgeous? I absolutely love it.

The story is available at a special 99 cents price for pre-or...

Send to KindleMillion Word Adventure Paying Off

The draft of License to Shop, the second Secret Shopper Mom Mystery is almost done. Pushing myself to write a millions words is paying off, even though I’ve had a lot of obstacles, and am behind in my overall goal.

My hope was that pushing myself would also push me to be more creative, take a few more chances, and avoid my tendency to be a safe and rule-oriented writer. I think it’s working. I absolutely love License to Shop. Who better understand...

Send to KindleFinding the Perfect Cover is One Part Persistence and Two Parts Luck

I’ve been meaning to get a new cover for my YA dark fantasy Blood Angel for a few months, but there have been so many other things on the to-do list….

The last two weeks I’ve been in cover-creation mode (stay tuned for a sneak peek at the cover for License to Shop, the second Secret Shopper Mom Mystery, and the gorgeous cover for my soon-to-be released short story, “Maiden Ash”).

While looking at covers to get ide...

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Week 4: Celebrating a Birthday and a Milestone

So this is week 4 of the The Million Word Adventure. Wow. I have learned a lot about how much I have let interfere with the writing the last few years.

Lessons (re)learned:

When you show up to the office, work gets done (duh, but I always need reminders of this one)
Sometimes when I make myself write a scene I’m not sure of, something wonderful happens and it turns out to be the key to the whole book (turns out the identity theft crime...

Send to KindleWriter’s Block Is More Like A Kinked Hose Than a Brick

I knew setting myself a big goal like The Million Dollar Adventure (write a million words in 4 months) was going to stir up the Doubt Dragons big time. The DDs this week are about the size of wasps, but there are thousands of them, with the same clouding, stinging effect of a disturbed hornet’s nest.

I have done many unnecessary things, while listening to a running narrative of “I have to write 10,000 words today. I have to.”

I...

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I am home, at last, after an entire summer away, having a big adventure. My husband and I drove across the country, from Maine to California, and back again.

We stopped to see sights both iconic (the Petrified Forest) and ironic (The Jolly Green Giant statue). I have pictures to prove it, and I will share them soon.

I even got to travel the Trans-Canada highway for the first time ever (highly recommended; there are many places where you can stop and just take a break...