Sourcebooks Casablanca Romance Authors

Every writer, whether seasoned or just starting out, need a support system. Completing a book is hard work and you need writer friends to cheer you on, commiserate with, and sometimes to bounce ideas off in order to solve tricky plot problems. But if you’re just starting out, how do you find your support tribe? Answer: You join Cherry Adair's Finish the DamnBook (FTDB) challenge . I met Cherry at my very first romance writer conference where I knew absolutely nobody. She recognized me as a very lost and scared beginning writer and introduced me to everybody she knew. Since Cherry is one of the most social and vivacious people in the world, that means I pretty much met everyone who attended that conference.  Warning: this is where the post turns all gushy and fangirly. It’s hard to find the words to describe how much this amazing woman means to me. Basically, Cherry Adair has been an incredible influence on my career. Thanks to her—and FTDB challenge—I completed...

by Cheryl Brooks If you read my blog from last month, When it snows, sometimes it drifts... , you'll know that the start of 2015 has been a bit rocky for my family. But at the moment, my husband's head is healing from having two burr holes drilled into it, his hair is now about a third of an inch long, my foot has been injected with cortisone, and both of us are walking a bit better than we were a few weeks ago. And now the first book of my Cowboy Heaven series (also called Cowboy Heaven ) has been released! The Cowboy Delight novella is available for a free download, (click HERE for the links) and the manuscript for the second book in the series is all set to go to my editor next week. After that, well, I don't know what I'll be doing. I'm almost finished with the first book of a romantic suspense trilogy, but I haven't decided whether to have my agent try to sell it or publish it myself. Ideas come from many places. The idea for my romantic suspen...