Sometimes when I’m trying to come up with a hero or heroine, I use movie stars as inspiration. I have a posterboard with pictures torn from magazines, and I’ll watch their movies. I pay close attention to their body language and any quirk or mannerism (like closing their eyes or tilting their head) that makes sense [...]
The Year of Living Shamelessly is excerpted in Complete Woman magazine! (See the cover of the book on the bottom right corner?) The magazine is also doing a giveaway.
It’s such a thrill to see my work in this publication. And I think it’s fantastic that The Year of Living Shamelessly was excerpted in a magazine [...]
Question: I know that Crystal Bend is a fictional town, but is it based on a real place?
Answer: Not really. When I wrote The Year of Living Shamelessly, I wanted to set it in a college town nestled in the mountains. I’m not sure why I wanted it in the mountains. Probably because I can [...]
For the second week in a row, The Year of Living Shamelessly hits the Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Bookscan bestseller list for romance trade paperback. Thanks to everyone who bought a copy. I hope you enjoy it!
A few years ago my Jenesi Ash stories were published in print anthologies. They are now out-of-print and hard-to-find, but I just found out that one of them has been reissued. Best Fetish Erotica is now available in stores and it contains my infamous erotic short story “Santa’s Little Helper.” I still hear from readers about [...]
In her latest article in the Examiner, Stephanie Giancola names The Year of Living Shamelessly as one of the “craziest and catchiest attention-getting titles” of October.
I have Jenna Petersen to thank for that.
We won’t go into how many titles I pitched to my editor. I had a long list of sexy titles, another list of [...]
They say it takes a village to raise a child and I think the same could be said about getting a book on the shelves. While The Year of Living Shamelessly is written by me, I can’t get a book through production and in stores on my own. It takes many people — some of whom I’ve [...]
I read a blog recently arguing that romance fiction was the modern-day fairy tale. Instead of a dragon or evil stepmothers, the woman is faced with monstrous credit card debt or a boss from hell. As cutesy as the comparison is, all I have to say is this: Just because the a story has a [...]
I remember a time when I was a teenager and I was reading a very dramatic, high-octane love story. The tormented heroine had to make a difficult choice and I wondered why this woman didn’t have any friends to talk to. It took me a while to realize that if she received any sound advice [...]
In The Year of Living Shamelessly, whenever Katie needs a bit of confidence, she wears a pair of knee-high black leather stiletto boots. She thinks they make her look edgy and sophisticated. Her friends, however, think it has less to do with sophistication and more to do with the stiletto. They believe there’s a correlation between [...]
