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Romance: Simple and Subtle Steps in the Dance of Love
Let’s Bring Back the Look (you know the one), the Gentle Touch, the Sweet Awareness? Now, I really love a good kissing scene. Who doesn’t? But sometimes I feel cheated when a book or movie rushes right to that kiss and even hurries on past the kiss without giving me time to appreciate the romantic…
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Critical Reader? I want to meet you!
Do you ask questions when you read? Would you be interested in Beta-reading?
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Halloween Romance Novella, Anyone?
It’s a dark, stormy night, and the students at The Phoenix House are telling stories around the fire. A sudden knock at the door starts a series of events that ends in murder. The Novella is called Veiled In Mist, and it’s free this weekend, October 7-9, 2022. I didn’t start out to write a…
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Romance Novel for .99 Cents: Book One of the Illusions Series
Now that the Illusions series is complete, I have lowered the price of book one, The Secrets We Keep to .99 cents. For the cost of a candy bar, you can have hours of enjoyment. Or you could splurge and buy both the book and the candy bar. This is the first romance book I…
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How About a Little Sneak Peak?
In The Lies We Tell, when Amelia sees the young girls at the brothel, this refined lady acts in a way that is so outside her nature it surprised me. I wanted to explore what would make her unable to walk away from these poor girls. This question was the impetus to write my current…
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I’m Teeming with Ideas for New Romances
When I first began writing, I had a character. Liza got into a mess, or she had to get her neighbor and father out of their mess. I had one book in my mind. Sometimes I worried a little that I would be a “one book wonder.” Then Liza went to a ball and talked…
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Coming Your Way
I’m in the middle of writing a new novel/novella to give to readers who sign up for my Love Notes. I realize that hose of you who already have subscribed have received my short story, One Stormy Day. Though technology isn’t my first language (or second or third), I will figure out a way to…
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One Artful Ruse
By Gigi Lynn Chance will not do the work—Chance sends the breeze;But if the pilot slumber at the helm,The very wind that wafts us towards the portMay dash us on the shelves.—The steersman’s part is vigilance,Blow it or rough or smooth Walter Scott, Fortunes of Nigel Joie I will apologize later. If I must. But…
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Minor Characters Speak Up
My minor characters have their own stories. I want to discover them and share them with you.