Being single on Valentine’s Day is very difficult. It’s as if the world is mocking you, telling you that you have a missing limb of some kind. You may be alone due to choice or circumstance, but in reality, you are complete just the way you are. Whether you’re single … Read More

One of my ministers once said she could tell what people really valued by looking at their checkbook and their calendar. Of course, that was almost thirty years ago when most of us still felt some sense of control over either one. Is it still true now? I don’t know … Read More

This holiday season I’ve been thinking a lot about the darkness closing in during the month. Here in Montana, we only get about eight and a half hours of daylight on December 22, the shortest day of the year. The darkness and cold definitely increase my desire to hibernate! But … Read More

As did most of you, I grew up with the traditional stories and feast of Thanksgiving: the turkey, the Pilgrims and Indians, giving thanks for the bounty we had, even if we kids were already creating shopping lists for Santa. I raised my kids the same way, joining with my … Read More

Shadows at Dawn (Maximum Security) Kat Martin Don’t miss this scorching novella, part of what Publishers Weekly is calling Kat Martin’s “tantalizing” new Maximum Security series! Private detective Jaxon Ryker swore to himself he would keep his hands off Mindy Stewart. No matter how much Jax might secretly wish otherwise, … Read More

As many of you know, I do substitute teaching. I have to admit that I get a tad frustrated by kids who don’t want to learn. The first grade teachers tried to address this by showing the movie, On the Way to School, which is about four students trying to … Read More

While I’m hard at work on book 3 of the Rocky Mountain Front series, I also took some time to release the California Coast Romance books as a bundle. These books were the first I published with Crimson Romance and lean more toward traditional romance than my current set. The … Read More

If you have read Home Is Where the Heart Is, you know that Freezeout Lake provides a key scene in the book. DH and I had the opportunity to visit lately (he’d never been). Although most of the birds are there in spring and fall, we saw lots of different … Read More

The Deception (Maximum Security) Kat Martin When missing turns to murdered, one woman’s search for answers will take her to a place she never wanted to go … After searching for her sister for two long years, Kate Gallagher is devastated when she’s called to the morgue to identify Chrissy’s … Read More

Where does a writer get her ideas? A road trip is just the ticket … A few weekends ago, DH and I meandered our way to a fiber festival near Viola, Idaho. Our path followed the general area that Lewis and Clark followed as they crossed the Bitterroot Mountains and … Read More