Some Book Good News…and a Request for Your Help

I am delighted to announce that Between Silk and Sand has been chosen as a finalist in two writing contests…but for these, YOU and other readers help decide the outcome, by voting for your favorites. I’m especially excited that Between Silk and Sand is a finalist in InD’tale Magazine’s 2019 RONE Awards, Best Young Adult… Read more »

Between Silk and Sand is here!!

So happy to announce that my first YA novel in far too long, Between Silk and Sand, releases today! You can read more about it here, including  an excerpt and the buy links to where it’s available for sale (everywhere, pretty much.)  All I want to add is that I’m so happy to be back… Read more »

Young Adult Book Giveaway!

Today, I have a fun surprise that I’d like to share with you. I’ve teamed up with 35+ fantastic authors to give away a huge collection of YA sci-fi and fantasy novels to 2 lucky winners, PLUS a brand new eReader to the Grand Prize winner! You can win my Betraying Season plus books from… Read more »

True Politeness for Ladies?

I thought you all might be as smitten as I with this new addition to my library. Measuring a dainty 4 ½” by 4” and containing 113 tips on how to behave in society, True Politeness for Ladies (or, as its title page reads, True Politeness; or the Book of Etiquette [for] Ladies does not… Read more »

She’s Here!

Who’s here, you ask? Why, this lovely lady! Nevertheless, She Persisted, an anthology of short stories by authors from Book View Café and edited by Mindy Klasky, releases today. I’m obviously very excited—it’s my first published short story—but there are eighteen other stories in this compilation worth getting just as excited over. This anthology celebrates… Read more »

SKIN DEEP Wins a PRISM Award

I’m thrilled to announce that Skin Deep won the 2017 PRISM Award for Best Urban Fantasy, awarded by the Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal Chapter of Romance Writers of America. Which meant I got to bring this shiny crystal pyramid home from the national RWA conference. ☺ This was such an honor; I’m very grateful to… Read more »

Now–and soon to be–here!

Book news for today,  on stories old and new. Firstly, in the “old” department, I’m thrilled to report that Skin Deep has won the Paranormal Category of the 2017 Wisconsin RWA’s Write Touch Readers’ Choice Award. One judge called it, “One of the best books I’ve read in a while. Kept me spellbound!” (Thank you!)… Read more »

Say hello (again) to BY JOVE!

It’s back! I’m delighted to announce that my contemporary fantasy By Jove, originally published in 2014 by Entangled Publishing, is back, revised and edited and with a shiny new cover and now available from Book View Café! Here’s the (also new and improved) blurb: After three soul-destroying years of teaching unenthusiastic middle-schoolers, Theodora Fairchild is… Read more »

Goodreads Giveaway for Skin Deep!

Want a chance to win a copy of Skin Deep? Enter the giveaway on Goodreads, where I’ll be giving away ten copies to lucky entrants (who’ll hopefully consider leaving a review!) Giveaway runs from April 15 to May 15. Click on the “Enter Giveaway” button below to–well, enter the giveaway. Good luck! Goodreads Book Giveaway… Read more »

Love is in the Air…

…Or it will be on Saturday, February 20, 2016 from 1:30-3:30 pm at the Writers’ Loft in Sherborn, MA when I join romance authors Judith Arnold, Rachel Kenley, and Kathryn Sparrow to talk about the fine art of writing romance, from first kiss to the dirty deed. If you’re anywhere in the eastern MA area… Read more »