Haunted hotels
I'm leaving for Prescott in an hour or so, to appear on TV, promoting McKettrick's Choice, and look at property. I'd love to have a get-away place, somewhere in the high country. I'm picturing plenty of grass and water for the horses, and a good yard where the dogs...
Today’s my birthday–dah-dah-dah!
It's supposed to sound like the song, but I'm not sure it's translating!How am I celebrating? Well, my daughter Wendy is visiting from California, and she and a niece and I are spending tonight in a HAUNTED HOTEL! The deal is, if you can stick it out the whole night,...
Late start!
Sorry for the late blog. I've been having one of those Murphy's Law kind of days, where everything that could go wrong, did. What's a cowgirl to do, but hang in there, and hope the horse stops bucking?I'm signing McKettrick's Choice tonight at 7:30, at Borders, on...
Quiet day at Springwater Station
Thank heaven!Today, I'm planning to enjoy being home. Just being.I'm going to read through the manuscript of my next historical, The Man from Stone Creek, which is about three-quarters of the way done, and brainstorm the big finale. Tonight, I have school, and my...
Back from Book Expo America!
Phew! What a trip THAT was!I got the star treatment all the way, from my wonderful new publisher, HQN, aka Harlequin. (They really ARE romance.) I hit the ground running Wednesday night, dropped my bags off at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, and grabbed a taxi...
It’s OUT THERE!
And I did sleep last night, very soundly. :)And I feel like Dorothy, going to sleep in a black and white world, and waking up in a full-color one!I have a vision for McKettrick's Choice, and it's a beauty.I see each volume as a little point of light, a link in a great...
I’m so excited!
Tomorrow is the big day. Tomorrow, bright and early, McKETTRICK'S CHOICE will turn up in book stores all over the US and Canada. I don't know how I'm going to get to sleep tonight! At last, at last, at last.If you've read the other McKettrick books, you'll be reunited...
Memorial Day
You all have strict orders from me to drive safely, eat lots of watermelon and hot dogs, and get yourselves ready to read a good book!It's a fine and natural thing to remember those who have gone before. I'm thinking today of my Grandma Wiley. She wasn't a blood...
Once….
...in a time bearing a strange and sweet resemblance to NOW, there was a rose, slumbering in the shadow of a wall, dreaming. Sometimes, those dreams were scary, but they were always marked by a mysterious yearning. The rose, you see, did not know it was a rose. It...
I WRITE ABOUT LOVE
I'm feeling impassioned this morning.I write about love. I write about romance. I write about strong people prevailing over circumstance. And I'm PROUD of it!In this day and age, though romance novels represent almost half of all fiction sold, volume for volume, there...
Fast Times at Springwater Station
One week ago today, we had our own rodeo, right here at Springwater Station. Nobody planned it except the horses, and no tickets were sold. We humans didn't get a choice about participating, either.Here's what happened.I had been at the last class of my Citizen's...
Hot Dog! I DID it!
I'm back! I actually managed to overcome my techno-phobia and get into this thing again.So what have I been up to?Well, right now, the focus of my attention is the release of McKettrick's Choice, by big western, starring Holt McKettrick, of "High Country Bride",...