Happy Visit to The Strand Bookstore

Today’s Throwback Thursday is a short toss back to this weekend when my daughter visited with a friend in NYC. They went to various spots in Manhattan and made an impromptu stop in The Strand bookstore. They decided to check out the shelves and look what they found! A few copies of One Summer Night, the first book in the At the Shore contemporary romance series. This is a fav book set in Sea Kiss, a fictional town that is a mix of three of my favorite Jersey Shore towns. One Summer Night was a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Romance Pick and also featured in the NY Times Book Review! So exciting.

The Strand Bookstore

You can’t edit a blank page

Various people have been credited with the quote about editing a blank page but whether Jodi Picoult or Nora Roberts (or little ol’ me), the single most important thing for a writer is to get something down on the page. It can be hard at times. You’ve lot your muse. You don’t have time. You’re stuck on what to do next in your plot. Just put something on the page. Anything. Thanks to computers, it’s easy enough to edit what you’ve written. But as so many have said, “You can’t edit a blank page.” Happy writing!

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Tantalizing Teaser from Biscayne Bay Breach

If you loved Person of Interest and Bodyguard, you just might like Biscayne Bay Breach. Picture this…Sicily…Oh wait, that’s Sophia from Golden Girls! LOL! But picture a computer program that can predict crimes, including the possible death of every – yes EVERY – member of the South Beach Security Gonzalez family. Add a second chance at love romance between tech millionaire John Wilson and beautiful, smart, and sassy baby sister Mia Gonzalez and you’ve got an action-packed and very romantic suspense! Biscayne Bay Breach is available in print, e-book, and audiobook! Here’s a teaser for you from the villain’s point of view. You can find out more about this book and the SBS series at https://amzn.to/408wOZK.

Teaser

CLACK, CLACK, CLACK went the fake shutter on his digital camera.

He zoomed in with the telephoto lens to get a better look at the man who had been sitting with Trey Gonzalez, and as he zoomed in, he sucked in a sharp breath.

“John Wilson,” he murmured. He recognized the man from some news reports on a recent charity event Wilson’s new software company had sponsored.

Interesting, he thought, wondering what the tech multimillionaire had to do with Trey. As far as he knew, it was Mia who had been hanging out with the man. Maybe that’s what this little meeting had been about: what Wilson’s intentions were toward Mia.

The Gonzalez family was a little old-fashioned that way. They stuck together. Protected their own.

Too bad they hadn’t cared at all about what had happened to his family. How his family had suffered over the years while the Gonzalez family had achieved the American Dream.

He intended to make sure that they’d pay for that suffering when the time was right, and his gut told him that would be soon.

He’d been patient after the last attack, waiting for them to let down their guard. It had dropped…a little. That was obvious from what he’d seen of today’s lunch meeting.

Trey had done his best to hide in that back corner and not be seen with John Wilson, but he didn’t know who he was dealing with. Trey and his family had underestimated the danger for months now, but soon he would give them what they deserved: the same kind of pain and loss he and his family had endured for over sixty years.

Soon, he thought, and snapped off a few more photos.

Sexy Brett from Danger in Dade

I’ve just started working on #4 in the South Beach Security K-9 Division spinoff. The hero in this story is Brett Madison who was a military policeman who has been partnered with Mango, a pit bull, at the SBS K-9 training center. This is a second chance at love story since Brett will be asked to protect Anita Reyes, a chef and owner of a South Beach restaurant who has witnessed a murder. I love second chance at love stories and can’t wait to write this story! I’m also already working on a new proposal that takes SBS cousins Sophie and Robbie to Colorado to visit with their cousin Jax, who was the hero in Cold Case Reopened! I hope my editor is interested in revisiting those characters because I want to share what’s happening with them!

Brett Madison military policeman

Happy Day of Wine and Romance

I can’t wait until next weekend when my daughter and I will be taking part in the Day of Wine and Romance! Join us on April 29 and 30 at the Brook Hollow Winery for a day of romance novels and tasty beverages. Brook Hollow Vineyard is a lovely place right near the Delaware River and the Lakota Wolf Preserve so there is a lot to do in addition to visiting with us and another 60+ authors. I hope you can make it!

Happy Earth Day

As you may know from my posts, I love to garden and I love to be out in nature. So today, I’m taking a moment to celebrate Earth Day and to offer up some tips on how you can help the environment. Here goes:

1. Cut down on bottles and cans by using a Sodastream to make your fizzy drinks. It also saves you a ton of money!
2. Try to use less water when washing dishes and fix leaky faucets.
3. If you can, bike or walk to local places instead of popping into your car.
4. Recycle and upcycle if you can. Donate clothes and consider vintage. Avoid fast fashion places. Restore and repurpose old furniture.
5. Plant a tree or garden.

Happy Earth Day! Enjoy this wonderful Saturday!

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The Shifter’s Kiss Free Read

If you’re still facing a winter chill, how about a story in a tropical location that’s bound to create some heat? I’ve just re-released The Shifter’s Kiss, an erotic paranormal romance about a very unique kind of shifter: a shark goddess. This story is set on a Caribbean island and the idea of the shark shapeshifter came from the Kuna people, who now live primarily on the San Blas Islands. The Shifter’s Kiss is an emotional story about a wounded firefighter who has found peace in the ocean until he encounters a very unusual shark and starts having dreams of an enticing woman. I think you’ll love this story and even better, it’s free on Kindle Unlimited at https://amzn.to/41GqOct. Don’t forget you can also download several other stories for free on Kindle Unlimited at https://amzn.to/43Pt0j9.

Teaser

After firefighter Victor Edwards almost loses his life while saving a child during a fire, he finally embraces his true passion: the ocean. It is the one place he feels at peace. While researching for his degree, he studies a unique shark that visits him by the reef. But by night erotic dreams of a beautiful woman haunt him and fill him with a yearning he doesn’t understand.

Nali is one of the last of a unique race of shark shapeshifters. Because of the danger of being near humans, she rarely swims swim close to shore, but the scarred man watching her on the reef rouses unwanted emotions. She can’t risk showing him her true form, but when he almost sacrifices himself to save her, she can no longer ignore him. Passion flares between them, but Nali must return to the sea or be forever imprisoned on land. But as his love calls to her, will she give up what she is for the promise of happiness?