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Any couple who spends the night in the Christmas cottage shall have love everlasting...  Back in November 2012, I had a plan.  I had already self-published one book but it wasn't moving much on Amazon and I wanted a way to keep my name out there until I could write my next novel.  My plan?  I was going to put a Christmas novella out there for free.  So I was already participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and ended up writing "The Christmas Cottage" in eleven days.  I went on to quickly edit it, designed my cover using free online programs and was ready to put it out there for the masses except...Amazon would not let me do it for free.  So I rolled with the punches and put a price on it and hit publish. It was a holiday bestseller.   I was feeling pretty proud of myself and went on to write the continuation of the book, "Ever After".  It never did quite as well as "The Christmas Cottage" did, but I learned a lot durin...

UPDATE: The randomly chosen winner of a copy of IMPROPER GENTLEMEN is Di! Please contact me through my website with your mailing info. To everyone else, thank you for commenting. I hope you'll pop by and enter my contest where you'll have a chance at winning an ARC of SINS OF THE HIGHLANDER (Jan 2012)! from Mia Marlowe I've always been an eclectic reader. Even though I write romance, I'm just as likely to pick up a mystery or a fantasy novel for my private enjoyment. I've even been known to burn through one of my DH's techno-thrillers. But for the past few months with my book club, I've been dipping a toe into the murky waters of mainstream fiction. You know what I mean. These are quasi-literary tomes. They're Oprah picks and the darlings of the media. While they're admittedly well-written, they are also almost universally depressing. It makes me wonder afresh why the romance genre takes so many hits from the media. I used to think it was because o...

Of Course. It goes without saying. We are w rit ing Romance, aren’t we? With such a wide spectrum of choices available to people who enj oy reading, I prefer Romance. The first R omance I read as a pre-teen was Lost Is land by Phy llis A. Whitney. I’ve been hooked ever since and h ave been a faithful reader of romance. I thrive on reading and writ ing books with the all i mportant HEA…Happily Ever After. The twists and turns of the plot can take Romance readers on a wild ride, but in the end we expect the hero and heroine to achieve that all important e nding. They d on’t have to get married and buy a house with a white picket fence or have babies, but the ending must be satisfying to the reader. As a writer, I have t o go one step beyond that… I hav e to satisfy my cha racters. If they aren’t happy with wha t I’m writing, and as odd as it may seem, th e do wake me up arguing in my head, they will definitely let me know. I always have a syno psis that I try to follow, but there...