If you’ve been waiting for my debut to hit the shelves, the wait is over. I got an email from Anita yesterday. She’d spotted One Real Cowboy at Walmart, bought and read it. And loved it. Yeehaw! Thanks, Anita! If you see my hunky cowboy hero, please blog on and tell me where.

Gigi Hicks is the winner of my short contest this month. She wins an autographed copy of THE BOY NEXT DOOR by Amy Knupp. Congrats, Gigi!

Friend Liz Kreger tagged me to list ten weird facts about myself. So here goes. 1) 99.999% of the time I can’t pronounce abominable (as is the snowman/Yeti) 2) I eat jalapeno peppers with nearly every meal, and despite my grandmother’s prediction, I haven’t burned out my stomach or set fire to the toilet paper. [...]

I received my author copies from Kensington this morning. Wow, this is a thrill beyond description. I tore into the book, picked up my debut novel and cried. How sappy is that? For so long I dreamed of this moment, and the reality was every bit as sweet as the dream. I had a pic [...]

To winter, that is. I’m so sick of cold and snow. We had a surprised snowstorm last night, which started at rush hour. Now if this had been our first snow, I could understand people driving goofy, but really, we’ve had snow on the ground for weeks, and we all should be used to it. [...]