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Jesse's Challenge In Print!

Jesse’s Challenge is book 3 in the Corralled series. Creating the Shooting Star Ranch, along with its rough and ready cowboys has been great fun. Brock and Tink have been rather shy to tell me their story, but I want to ensure fans of the series that book 4 is in the works.

I’d like to thank all the readers who have emailed ideas for wild and wacky ranch games. Please, keep them coming. You never know, you’re idea could wind up in one of the books! In fact, if you send me an idea that I use, I will send you a signed print book of your choice from the series.

The Insiders’ View

Read enough blog ramblings written by authors and you’re bound to hear about the voices in our heads—our characters. Yes, they really do talk to us. They don’t always talk as often as we’d like or at the most appropriate of times, but when they speak we listen. The alternative is frightening—writer’s block.

Writing fiction sounds like the easy life, right? Wrong!

It's Almost Summertime...Yay!

The temperatures are rising and soon it will be summertime, when the livin’ is easy. Makes me want to kick back in a hammock with a good book and a cold drink. Have you made your plans? What are you doing this summer? Taking a family vacation or maybe going somewhere with a group of friends? Perhaps thinking of something a bit more…exciting?

Thought Provoking Questions

Readers ask the most interesting questions. I love it! Recent questions have started me thinking about the way I write, and I wanted to share my responses.

One reader asked how I can juggle several different stories at any given time. No matter what I’m working on, I have to write down new ideas when they come to me so I don’t forget them. Sometimes this distracts me from my current work in progress if the idea is a strong one. There are also times when I need to step back and take a break from a particular story. Working on a different one allows me clear my mind and go back with a fresh perspective.

JESSE'S CHALLENGE Available Today!

Book 3 of the Corralled Western series releases today. Yeehaw! I am having so much fun with the rowdy folks of the Shooting Star Ranch. The next book, Brock’s Hellion, is currently a work in progress.

Blurb: A few stolen intimate moments shared with a nameless beauty present a challenge no cowboy can resist.

Jesse Powers feels like a fish out of water when he leaves the ranch and jumps feet first into the shark infested waters of big business wheelers and dealers. Homesickness rides the cowboy hard until a fiery uptown girl captures his interest and lassos his heart.

Romance & Passion 101

While I highly recommend reading stories filled with romance and passion, reading about it should not be a substitute to having those things in your life. Never fear, even if you are currently unattached and not dating, there are lots of simple ways to keep romance and passion alive and kicking.

If you frequent other places I blog, you know some of this already. For those who haven’t visited or want a refresher, read on to benefit from what I’ve learned through endless hours of backbreaking research.

Have A Margarita Day!

Margarita Day, the stand alone sequel to Mimosa Night, is available today. Yay!

Both stories were inspired by our readers. Margarita Day is Jodi’s story, a quiet Vegas dealer. Warning, this Contemporary Romance is a Red Hots!, so have plenty of ice on hand.

To celebrate the release, TK and I are running two contests. Keep reading for details on how to win a $10 MBaM or $25 Amazon gift certificate.

Opening The Bedroom Door

What would lead an author to writing erotic romance? For me, all it required was a bit of frustration. I got sick and tired of having the bedroom door shut in my face while reading romances. How frustrating. As the story builds, you are drawn into the hero and heroine’s lives. You share in their struggles and triumphs, sadness and joy, along with the building attraction. The author draws you into the sexual tension, shows you how hot they are becoming for each other.

TAMARA'S SPIRIT Releases Today!

Yeehaw! I’m so excited about Tamara’s Story. The Corralled Series has been a blast to write. Anything goes on the Shooting Star Ranch, which makes it a wild and crazy kind of place. The next book in the series, Jesse’s Challenge, releases in November.

Blurby Part:

There’s nowhere to run and no place to hide from old wounds and demons for the vulnerable woman behind the bawdy attitude.

How ironic to be captured by an Indian when not one of the Shooting Star Ranch cowboys is available to race to her rescue.

City girl Tamara Dobbs lives on the ranch to be close to her friends and even closer to her gorgeous cowboys, but still she feels discontent, fragmented. From the minute she runs into the new guy—sexy, unflappable equestrian, Dakota Blackhawk—she runs from the intense emotions he evokes.

On first sight, Dakota knows nothing will stop him from claiming the brazen little princess as his own—heart, body, and spirit. He’ll accept nothing less. While he would gladly take on the fight for her, she must face her own battle to become whole. Taking her out of her element is the only way he can help the sexy, stubborn woman.

Tamara may survive the emotional roller coaster ride, but she still must conquer the ultimate challenge…forgetting what others want her to be and becoming true to herself.

Warning, this book contains lots of steamy, explicit sex told in contemporary, graphic language!

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Unexplainable Events

Many people try to explain away the unusual. We deny the possibility of things we don’t want to acknowledge or that science is unable to provide concrete proof of. It’s a normal reaction to experiences which seem to defy possibility or justification. We’re more inclined to believe in angels due to the positive connotations than to consider the possibility of ghosts and the occult. And uncommon abilities such as telepathy and extra-sensory perception are discounted as trickery. We are skeptical of fortune tellers and those claiming to be psychic, rightly so considering the number of these people who have been proven false.