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Despite some iffy reviews, I went to see the movie The Man From U.N.C.L.E. To my surprise, I enjoyed it very much. The period sets and costumes were amazing, the music fun and hopping, and the plot worked well to move the story along. Per IMDb, here's the plot of the movie: At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) are forced to put aside t heir hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.  Sounds intriguing, right?  Now add in these two hunky heroes (actors Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer, from left to right): The dark-haired lothario is Napoleon. He's the suave American ...

When I think of a heroine, I often think of women like Joan of Arc, or as she was called during her lifetime, Jeanne d'Orleans, a woman who helped the French throw off their English overlords, a woman who turned the tide of history and saved France. I think of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who married two kings and ruled England and it's holdings in her own right when her son Richard I rode off on Crusade. It is this kind of woman I think of when I write my romance novels. Now, my romance heroines never slay dragons, lead men into battle or marry kings. But I like to think that, if their circumstances were different, these ladies could. The heroines in my new series, Terror of the Ton, are brave. They face the obstacles of their lives with open eyes, and they do not flinch from leaping over them, whether they're mounted on a horse or not. Though they are ladies of the Regency period, they do not expect men to solve all their problems. But when they are offered help fro...

I've got some quick fun for you today. Cover reveals are always fun!  So first off, my new historical One Rogue at a Time. I always seem to misspell it as Rouge which is not at all the same thing. Anyway, it's coming in December. Here's the Amazon link to  One Rogue at a Time . When I get my new website up and running there will be way more information about it.  But for right now, let me say it's a fun, fun book! A woman sets out to find her father with the reluctant help of a rogue gentleman. Suffice it to say that her father is much more than anyone guessed. And the rogue has to find some long lost honor to win the girl. And now the other cover. I'm releasing a self-published title. I don't have links up right now, so you're really getting a sneak preview. It's a story about a modern day woman who walks through the back of a closet into a bizarre new world complete with a sword wielding hero, evil magicians, and spaceships. It's Narnia gone ...

My birthday is coming up on Sunday. I'll be...well, it doesn't matter how old I'll be. What matters is that my favorite way to celebrate has, as far back as I can remember, involved books. When I was a child, I always asked for Black Stallion books for my birthday. My favorite wasn't a book about The Black at all, though; it was a fictionalized biography of the great racehorse Man O'War. It has a new cover style now, but this was the one I imprinted on. Once I got a little older, I asked for Baby-Sitters' Club books. Or Nancy Drews. Lois Duncan novels. Books of Dave Barry columns. As a teen, I started collecting Agatha Christie's mysteries, and I asked for the titles I hadn't been able to find at my local bookstores. I still have them all. Hey, it took a long time to collect these. When I hit college, I was just as likely to ask for classics I needed for my English degree as I was to ask for something for fun...until I discovered romance...

Can't Make Time for Love? She'll Show Him How to Find It.  So here I am, first time on the Casablanca blog, and I'm talking about my latest contemporary romance release, "Made for Us".  This is book one in my new series - The Shaughnessy Brothers.   What I love about this new series is how much family means to each of them.  When Lillian Shaughnessy died, she left behind a husband and six children whose ages ranged from eighteen to ten months.  And rather than this tragedy tearing them apart, it made them closer as they clung together to get through their grief.   At the point that you’ll be meeting them, seventeen years has gone by and we see how the loss of their mother still affects who they currently are.  Each book will not only introduce you to an individual Shaughnessy as they navigate through their life and eventually find love, you will spend a lot of time getting to know the rest of the family, as well....

I’m sure every author visualizes at some point an actor or actress that would be perfect as the hero or heroine in their book, so I’m excited to share with you who I would choose if my stories from LAWYER UP were brought to life in the movies. But first a word from our sponsor. (Well, actually, no, but I do need to mention that each book in my Meeting Men series is made up of a trio of short, sexy stories, so I get to cast six roles today.) First up, in the role of heroine for “Attorney-Client Privileges” I would cast in the role of Bethi-Ann Sikes the actress from iZombie, Rose McIver. Her quirky inner strength with just a touch of comedic sass would be perfect for the role of a woman who comes from a dirt-poor background and finds it only goes downhill from there. Her savior, Jon Bateman, is a mix of divorced chip-on-your-shoulder angst and genuine hard-working earnestness, and for that role Patrick J. Adams, who plays Mike Ross in Suits, would be perfect, although he’d need to to...

Launch Day is weird. Okay, the book is out there. There’s nothing more I can do about it, but I feel as if there’s something I ought to be doing. Is there some protocol for nervous authors? I don’t want to find myself checking the rankings on Amazon every ten minutes or so in hopes that somebody has actually bought the book. Yes, I know, this is silly, but it’s hard to resist. I certainly don’t want to Google the book’s title to see if there are any reviews. That’s really not a good idea. If there’s a new review, it might not be a good one. Then I would be depressed, and that’s even worse than being nervous. I don’t want to stare out the window all day, feeling as if there ought to be something happening out there. I know what I’ll see. Nothing. Nada. So I could do what I usually do when I’m a nervous wreck: I will cook. Preferably something wildly elaborate that I have never made before and will take me HOURS. I have a recipe for a pâté that has seventeen different ingredients, inclu...