Monthly Archives: October 2013

Book Review- Pocket Full of Posies

I read another great book by Julie Coulter Bellon, the third installment in the Hostage Negotiation Team, Pocket Full of Posies:   From the blurb: They say to keep your friends close and your enemies closer . . . Hostage Negotiation Team member Bart Gutierrez is shocked to find Lucy Aguayo, a girl he knew...

What my Characters Eat and Drink

One thing that sets my novels apart from other romance novels in the genre is the Portuguese setting. As a native, I know the people, the places, and the language. The details make it different, and, hopefully, interesting to the readers. It’s the culture behind the story—all stories have their own culture, and it’s up...

The New Book

My muse is completely unreliable and disrespectfully inconvenient. After being absent for weeks on end, without so much a ‘by your leave‘, I might add, she finally returned last night, a little before ten o’clock. Being the inspiration-starved writer I am these days, I didn’t question her absence, nor her reappearance; indeed, I pretended it...

Why We Love the Comfort Zone

Last week, I read this blog post on the Think Tank blog: It’s titled Get Out of Your comfort Zone, by Jennifer Bennett: (click on the image)   Jennifer shares a few tips on how to get out of that comfort zone. It made me think why we want to get out of the comfort...

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