Authors I Admire

I love the covers of Amy Patrick’s New Adult 20 Something series, but her new YA Fantasy cover has me drooling. Plus, the book sounds amazing. It’s the first in a trilogy, which I usually prefer to not start reading until all three books are out. I get impatient when I have to wait to spend time with characters I just fell in love with. For the Hidden Trilogy though, I may just have to suffer. I don’t know if I can wait for book one and two when the first one, HIDDEN DEEP sounds so good. As it is, …

The Janes are off to a 2015 rocket start. Our posts for January were all about new beginnings, new hope, new plans and we dubbed our theme Battle Plans. Hop on over to the blog to learn about Jessa’s analysis of friends’ and family’s resolutions, go with Jamie on a quest to streamline not only your physical life, but your cyber footprint. I wrote about my battle plan to breathe, and Jessie talks about breaking down all of your resolution into one word that says it all. We have so much fun planned for this year and are branching out to a …

Listening to This American Life is one of the highlights of my week. Sometimes I’m too busy to catch the show, but then I can always binge on the podcasts. Ira Glass and his staff are some of the best story tellers out there. When a partner craves for sex and the men after taking its dose gets the cialis pills for sale power to hold his erection for as long as 6 hours. Quick climaxing builds up right subconscious trouble viagra on line after a while you may become familiar with the syndrome my inbox suffers: High Volume Familiar …

My conference schedule for 2015 is almost full already! As much as I love hiding out in my office with only my characters and story plot for company, I also need to get with my peeps a few times a year for conferences and other literary events. That’s when we writer types (and reader types) mingle with like-minded people and gossip about made up characters that seem as real to us as our family members or day job coworkers. When you put more than one writer in the same place at the same time, wonderful things happen. Creativity flows and new stories are born while pesky plot …

Today I have the pleasure of interviewing award-winning author and two-time Golden Heart Finalist Amy Patrick. I’ve been hanging out with her in the 2014 Golden Heart finalists online forum since the nominations were announced in March and I also met her in person at the Romance Writers of America National Conference in July. She is so nice and so much fun! And she’s also an amazing writer. I just finished reading her new novel CHANNEL 20 SOMETHING and I loved, loved, loved it. It’s such a pleasure to interview Amy today. Here’s the book blurb: 22-year-old Heidi Haynes is …