The Memories A Writer Carries
October 28, 2020
By Lindsay McKenna Do you ever pick up a book and wonder what the story behind it is, and what inspired the author to write it? I always wonder what… READ MORE
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The Wishing Tree
October 21, 2020
By Lindsay McKenna I’ve always written about strong women who were creative, matriarchal characters. I started writing about such women in 1980, and haven’t stopped to this day. And that… READ MORE
Writers Submissions
May 12, 2020
Writers Submissions KENSINGTON: Established in 1974, Kensington, America’s independent publisher, located in New York City, is the foremost independent publishing house in the United States publishing in hardcover, trade… READ MORE
Never Send a Boy to Do a Woman’s Job
April 13, 2020
Or, how an anchor comes up with a trouser diva! by Kathleen Marple Kalb Every single time I give my newsroom colleagues the top-line on A Fatal Finale: Swashbuckling opera… READ MORE
Emergency Garlic Butter Recipe
March 25, 2020
By Gin Jones The original draft of SIX CLOVES UNDER, in addition to having a really terrible title, didn’t have any recipes. My amazing agent, Rachel Brooks, not only brainstormed… READ MORE
What Made Me A Romance Reader?
December 12, 2019
By Laura Heffernan I started reading romance novels when I was eleven or twelve, hiding them under my mattress or inside my nightstand so my mom wouldn’t find them (of… READ MORE
Things That Give Me Chills
December 7, 2019
By Sara Driscoll Halloween is a time for thrills and chills. For scary costumes and scarier decorations. For haunted houses and ghoulish stories told in the dark. But one of… READ MORE
My Quilt by Elizabeth Hardinger
August 29, 2019
My maternal grandmother, Lizzie Frans (1900-1993), was an artist with a needle. She crocheted, tatted, appliqued, embroidered, quilted, and, of course, mended. She had four daughters and eighteen grandchildren, and… READ MORE
My Love Of Bakeries by Lynn Cahoon
June 1, 2019
Or this blog could be called my love of baked goods. Either way, I’m pretty sure it started at Buttery’s Food and Drug. It was a regional grocery chain in… READ MORE
The Secrets That Inspired Me to Write THE ABOLITIONIST’S DAUGHTER by Diane C. McPhail
May 15, 2019
What is one great secret of many popular books? Well, secrets, of course. The ones you read the book to discover, the ones your favorite characters are hiding, the ones… READ MORE