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Sometimes books flow easily, others are dragged from me thanks to massive doses of caffeine and chocolate. Mostly, my books come with a mixture of both with some scenes arriving fully formed, others being written and rewritten until my fingers bleed. (Actually, they usually become chocolate stained, but I digress...) What the Bride Wore was of the hard-fought variety. Perversely, I think it makes it one of my best books just because of the struggle. At the very beginning, the book's core had little to do with romance. I've been watching a lot of Supernatural and was very intrigued by the two brothers. Sam and Dean anyone? So I wanted to write two brothers with a simple but profound difference in perspective. Will, the younger brother (and the hero of Winning the Bride ) is like Dean in that it's all about doing the work. He doesn't say much, but his actions speak volumes. Grant is the older brother (hero of What the Bride Wore ) and is more cerebral. He th...

For the last few years, authors have been talking about the feed-in novella. You can't launch a book, they say, unless it has an attached novella. What does that mean? Well (I pretend to pull an example out of the air) for example, WINNING A BRIDE by Jade Lee has just been released! (Imagine confetti and a Sousa march right now). Next month see the advent of WHAT THE BRIDE WORE . Yeah! But here's the problem: I don't write short. Not really. I routinely go 10-20,000 words over my limit. So a novella suddenly becomes a short novel. And my novel...well, let's just say I save weeks in my writing schedule just to cut words and tighten my manuscript. And that doesn't even begin to address the point of the novella. After all, the whole idea is to give people a taste of my writing, a nice little story (purchased cheap) that leads them into my larger work. That's like crafting the perfect piece of tiny chocolate. I never think little chocolate. Who wants...