The last half of 2022 has been phenomenal so I am counting my blessings and sharing them with you!  After reading about my happy places, please go to my contact page and share your blessings with me!! Been travelling to a few book festivals and conferences so that I can learn more about the business side of publishing.  For a published author, it’s important to build an audience who will read your books and get others to read them too. Not just family and friends but THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of other loyal romance readers. And we need to get lots…

Marketers are infringing on our happily ever after! I had taken a break from television to focus on completing and publishing my book, LEAP OF FAITH. Thanks again to all who purchased, commented, shared, written a review and/or gave it a five star rating, and have forced me to start thinking of a sequel. Upon return to the small screen, I began to notice that in many of the commercials, there was a noticeable absence of Black women and Black men in relationships-as a couple or family.  Black men were shown primarily with White or Hispanic or Asian women with…

My college crush told me that the right music could set the stage for whatever type of romantic encounters you wanted to have, whether you are just getting to know someone, you want to have a romantic night that might include making love, or just have sex, to get over a fight, or to propose. The lyrics do all the talking so you don’t have to say a word, and the music speaks to your heart and soul.  Sometimes you don’t even need lyrics, just the music. There is definitely a market for wedding songs. Ribbon in the Sky alone…

How many times have you been in love?  Or thought you were? -Who were they and what happened? What can a person do to “romance” or “woo” you to make you feel adored and cherished? Is there such a thing as ‘forever love’ or ‘happily ever after’? These questions are good to ponder in our private moments and for discussion at girls’ nights and book clubs and whenever people need a good topic to talk about. They are also explored in my contemporary romance books– Leap of Faith (May, 2022) and Valentine’s Love  (September 10, 2022). Both are stories of…

It’s probably a surprise to many people that I am writing romance novels.  Actually, it was a surprise to me too.  I’m the quiet, serious, business-oriented type.  But hey, underneath all that I like what many women like: a good man and a good loving relationship, in real life and in a good book or movie. When I was growing up, the romance arena was dominated by Harlequin, Danielle Steel, Nora Roberts, Nicholas Sparks, and Debbie Macomber.  I have read books by each one of them, and who hasn’t seen Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook? Hallmark and Lifetime have made a…