Have you seen ads for my books? I'm wondering what works best.

Here’s a screen shot of an ad for Amazon. Besides my website, this blog and social media, I have attempted to get news about my books out into the world through paid ads. I took advertising copywriting classes back in the day (so long ago you can write about the era and call it historical fiction.) But do I know what grabs readers’ attention in the 21st Century? No, I do not. But I’m going to…

One more day until the @writewomenpub Book Fest!! I'll be under the @MarylandRomance tent. Bringing all my books published by @champagnebooks. So looking forward to talking to readers again. Covid has kept us apart long enough!

This is part of the stuff that I have to bring to the festival. Tomorrow is my first book festival since Covid canceled everything. I am joining ten writer-members of the Maryland Romance Writers under our very own tent at the Write Women Book Fest in Glenn Dale, Md. These are accomplished women from best-selling authors to undiscovered newbies who have written books everyone should read. If you…

Writing a book review is a true sign of book love—even if you think the book's only worth a single star. True or false?

Here’s the review page for FEARLESS SUMMER on Goodreads. Did you read FEARLESS SUMMER? Did you get out your hankie? Dab away a little something from the corner of your eye? Sigh with contentment when you closed it?Did you—metaphorically, since this is an e-book—throw it across the room and call it a piece of crap? Or, oh no I hope not, worse? Did you know a book review, good or bad, can affect…

The experts say authors have to have a newsletter. (I'm looking at you, @KarenAChase )So, if I'm going to be the boss of my author business, I better get busy. What do you put in your newsletter. #amwriting #ampromoting. https://bit.ly/3cXcWFS

The flag and lead story in my most recent newsletter, announcing of course, the release of the e-book edition of Fearless Summer. I send out my newsletter only occasionally and pack it with all the latest about my books, appearances and other book-related news. With a few projects in the works I’ll probably send out a fall newsletter, followed by a winter newsletter when I have dates for the…

Sending out love to my favorite booksellers on #bookstoreromanceday. Thank you, @WincBkGallery , Turn the Page, The Greyhound in Berlin, MD.

Yes I did sign books with the great Nora Roberts, at her Boonsboro bookstore, Turn the Page. Today, August 20, is Bookstore Romance Day. For authors of romance books, it’s a day to celebrate this literary genre with stops by local book stores. I’m taking a break now that my new sweet second-chance romance, FEARLESS SUMMER (If you haven’t heard of it yet, you haven’t been reading my blog!), has…

Did you read MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE? The beloved horse is remembered around the Virginia town--and in my sweet romance FEARLESS SUMMER, out now from @champagnebooks. https://bit.ly/3cXcWFS

“Do you have the book about Misty?”I peered over the counter to find a boy about seven squeezing the stuffing out of a plush pony. “Do you know about the famous pony?”He nodded most solemnly. “My mom took me to the museum where they have pictures and stuff about the wild ponies. Now I want to read the book.”FEARLESS SUMMER—CHAPTER SEVEN The sculpture of Misty and a fowl friend was created by…

Mark your calendars to come to the Write Women Book Fest Oct. 8. I'll be there with the Maryland Romance Writers, bringing all my books published by @champagnebooks @WriteWomenPub @MarylandRomance It's going to be fun!

I am helping the Maryland Romance Writers organize a tent of our own at the Write Women Book Fest Oct. 8, 12 noon to 5 p.m. It will be held on the leafy grounds of the Marietta House Museum near Bowie Md. We’re going to have panel presentations, author spotlights, reader Q&As, and lots of books we’ll be happy to sell and sign. I’ll bring all of my books—romance and historical—although since…

Lots of real places appear in FEARLESS SUMMER, my new sweet romance: Island Creamery, Mr. Whippy, @BooksSundial , The Brant, The Ropewalk and Pony Tails. These are more "tours" of #Chincoteague to come on my blog. @chincochamber https://bit.ly/3cXcWFS

In FEARLESS SUMMER, I used lots of real places, my favorite places, shops and restaurants that I need to visit to make my Chincoteague experience perfect. Because there are so many, I didn’t include them all. But as I wrote about Charlotte’s return to her hometown, her conversations with her sisters, and her meeting with her lost love, I added real places. Ice cream on a hot summer day? Yes…