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Howdy, Pardner!
“Partner up, and everybody goes to work.” – rodeo photographer Dan Hubbell
Phew!
I don’t know about other writers, but for me the most stressful time in my writing life is the time between the submission of a manuscript and the response from my editor. I know she’s reading it, and I’m dying to know what she thinks, but I can’t do anything but wait to hear from […]
Latoya Smith Interview
Recently, I was lucky enough to talk with Grand Central editor Latoya Smith about what’s new in publishing
Submission and Rejection
A Beginner’s Guide to the Business of Writing
One Fine Day!
Today, One Fine Cowboy arrived in bookstores nationwide! That’s my friend Laura, holding the first copies to arrive in Cheyenne!
Chasing Numbers
Are sales rankings and blog statistics valuable information or a waste of writing time?
New Cover Art!
Here’s the new cover art for “One Fine Cowboy” (click to see whole image).
When Anxiety Attacks!
I was relaxing, enjoying a good book, when I realized that someone else, in some other half-darkened house, was also reading–my book. Yikes!
Today is the Day!
Today is the release day for Cowboy Trouble. It’s finally on the shelves!
It’s here!
Today, I had the surreal experience of receiving, unpacking and shelving my own book at the Cheyenne B&N. It was in the last box I unpacked. Being a dedicated employee, I was so focused on the job at hand that I didn’t notice the Sourcebooks logo on the box. When I opened it–wow. I can’t even begin to describe […]
On Tour
Book promotion has changed. Writers used to have to travel the country, schlepping from bookstore to bookstore for an endless round of book signings and readings. It gave you an opportunity to meet your readers face to face, and helped cement all-important relationships with booksellers, too. But the traditional book tour, being time-consuming and expensive, is […]
Any Day Now…
According to my publicist, Cowboy Trouble is shipping to bookstores as we speak! The official release date is March 2nd, but it looks like it will be hitting bookstores a couple weeks early. With any luck, I’ll be working at B&N when it arrives and I’ll have the heady and surreal experience of unpacking and […]
Harlequin Horizons
Today, the romance blogosphere is abuzz with news of the launch of Harlequin Horizons, a vanity/subsidy press created by a cooperative venture between vanity press Author Solutions and Harlequin Enterprises. The news has spewed the self-publishing vs. traditional publishing debate all over the romance-themed websites and comment boards. Within the romance community, Harlequin is a […]
Ten Simple Rules
November is always a busy month. There’s Thanksgiving and Christmas preparations to get done, and the bookstore is always busy. Now I’ve gone and tossed another task into the mix: I have revisions due on my second book on November 30th, and corrections to Cowboy Trouble are due by November 25th. That’s what I get for always […]