Dear Reader, I hope you can deal with all the readjustments to life we have all had to make due to Covid. I was happily researching the fifth book in my Lone Star Dynasty series when Covid struck. For some reason, I simply couldn’t write. I guess I was too busy reading about Wuhan, China, …
Rule number one should probably be the following: when you write a series, don’t leave your readers hanging. Alas, I didn’t know the rules when I became a publisher. Where’s Jack? What happened to Jack? Does he have a story, too? Several readers have emailed me about Jack after finishing Book 1, and the fact …
Caleb, I’m SO SO proud of you! What inspired you to write Top Elf? When I was a kid, I was always full of questions — and some of my biggest ones were about Santa Claus. How does he get around the world in a single night? How has one guy lived long enough to deliver …
Why do I write romance novels by day, but watch murder shows by night? Recently my grown children got very upset with me because I couldn’t stop watching the true-crime T.V. series, Forensic Files. Whatever my fixation with the psychology of killers is, it goes back a long way. I can remember as a child wanting …
Challenges Of Re-Issuing SECRET CHILD for Today’s Market “No one provides hotter emotional fireworks than the fiery Ann Major.” RT Book Reviews I thought revising SECRET CHILD (Book 8, Texas: Children of Destiny) would be a piece of cake. It was the first “big book” I wrote for Silhouette Books. It placed on several U.S. bestseller lists when …
I approach every day with way too much to do and too many things I haven’t a clue as how to do. So, every day I ask myself these three magic questions: 1. What does Ann Major have to do? 2. What would be good for Ann Major to do? 3. What does Ann Major …
I just returned from the Grand Canyon where I hiked to the bottom and back with my three grown children, brother, and husband and didn’t have to be air-lifted out by helicopter. (I was told the price for such a rescue is $35,000.) I did have a fall – but no broken bones. Since I …
One of the first things to consider when writing a new book is the setting. Since my books are usually somewhat autobiographical, maybe it isn’t surprising that Golden Man is set in Wimberley, Texas, a small town in the Texas Hill Country located between Austin and San Antonio. My husband’s family has had a home on Cypress …
While looking back at the novels in these boxed sets, I wondered if I ever write anything that isn’t at least a little bit autographical. Passion’s Child has to do with sailing and so does The Goodbye Child. Growing up in Corpus Christi, I began to sail in the womb – literally. My parents were …
The following quote by John Quincy Adams inspired me to write a blog today: “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams In the past year I’ve certainly put in the patience and perseverance toward my self-publishing career, but the obstacles and difficulties seem to loom as high …