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Children’s Book Week (Nov. 3-9)
Children’s Book Week is part of the longest-running national celebration of books for young people and the joy of reading. Schools, libraries, and bookstores celebrate November 3-9 with special events, literacy promotion, and tips to get kids curious about reading.…
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October Reading Recommendations
These three books are all October releases from author friends of mine–each one part of a series (and you know how much I love a series), and each unique in its storytelling. Since her teen years, Opal Hughes has taken…
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Best Friends and Friendship in Women’s Fiction
August 1st is National Girlfriends Day, an opportunity to celebrate our best friends and recognize the many ways our relationships with other women make life better. Remember that saying, men are from Mars and women are from Venus? That sums…
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What is it about friendships?
Some time ago, a woman who has read all my books, romances and women’s fiction alike, commented that she was drawn to my stories because the characters, especially the women, have such lovely (her exact word) friendships. She wondered why…
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What is it about a series?
Bringing the Adelaide Creek books to a close has triggered thoughts about why a series is so much fun to write, and based on global sales of books of every genre, fun to read. Harlequin Enterprises has an entire division…
