It’s Party Time! Excellent!
The event will last from 12 Noon Eastern Daylight Time until 12 Midnight Eastern Daylight Time USA, which should allow Brigaders around the globe an opportunity to join in. We hope everyone will want to stay, chat, interact and participate in the event for as...
Phoenix Inheritance Release Day
We're up to book 4. Wow. Part of me is pumping my fist and thinking "hells, yeah!" especially with the recent SF Romance Galaxy Award for the Phoenix Institute series. The other part of me is just grateful: for my editor, for my readers, for my friends and family...
New Facebook Banner for Phoenix Inheritance
Isn't it pretty?
The Phoenix Institute Wins “Best SuperHero Origin Series!”
Those of us who carry the banner for science fiction romance look forward to the annual SF Romance Galaxy Awards, organized by Heather Massey of The Galaxy Express. This year, I'm thrilled to have the Phoenix Institute as one of the award winners. And I can't resist...
Top Ten Lessons From Hart to Hart
In a world where Game of Thrones can leave me wrung out emotionally, Hart to Hart (1979-1984) has been a refreshing change of pace the last two weeks. Hallmark Channel ran a Hart to Hart marathon over the holidays and I let them build up on my DVR out of curiosity. I...
2015: The Year of Risk Taking
I've never been happier to see a year end and a new year begin. Serious illness laid my family and myself low several times and then we lost two of our kitties. All I wanted from 2014 was to survive to 2015. That achievement unlocked, like everyone else in January,...
Cookie Exchange: Never Fail Fudge!
As I sat down to write this post, being tagged in this awesome cookie exchange by my friend, author Gin Jones, I pondered which of my characters would actually make fudge. Alec Farley, the firestarter from Phoenix Rising, would likely burn the fudge on his first...
The SF Romance Brigade Showcase: A Peek Into Phoenix Inheritance
Phoenix Inheritance may be the geekiest book I've ever written. It's definitely the most personal. One, because the heroine is very much a geek, like me, and loves all her geeky attire. But mostly because Renee Black deals with her autistic child on a daily basis,...
Rave Review of Ghosts of Christmas Past–plus cover reveal!
A nice start to my holiday shopping day with a great review of Ghosts of Christmas Past over at Long and Short Reviews: "The romance between Noir and Al began before the book started but I had no trouble picking up what was happening. The love is there, but so is the...
Reality is Scarier Than Fiction
I have a book out today, Ghosts of Christmas Past. I'm proud of it, I love the characters of Al and Noir, I love that it's a Christmas story, and I love that I was able to integrate A Christmas Carol into the plot. But a part of me feels like it's a little gauche to...