We’re excited to announce that YARWA, The Young Adult Chapter of Romance Writers of America, is now official. Our webpage is www.YARWA.com (a marvelous work in progress). You can also follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/YA_RWA. We’ll follow you back! We’ll be tweeting about current industry news, contests with YA categories, contest wins, and [...]

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For RWA members only :
RWA elections start next week! I’m on the ballot under Karen Steele / Ember Case, running for the Director, Region 3 seat.
Watch your email for voting instructions from RWA.
My official biography and vision statement, along with answers to some questions asked of all the candidates by RWA, are below, and on [...]

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I am unexplainably excited about “V“, coming to ABC this November 3rd.
But look at this cast!
Alan Tudyk, Elizabeth Mitchell, Morris Chestnut, Scott Wolf, Christopher Shyer, Joel Gretsch – do you know how many SciFi / Geekdom shows they have between them? My heart swells with like an overzealously shaken Brawls just thinking about it.
Also, [...]

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Jax Cassidy of the blog Hooked on Romance interviewed me today – I love this blog, so it was a lot of fun to be asked and then to sit down and do the interview. I hope you’ll stop by and leave a comment!

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I’ve got a warm, fuzzy place in my heart for Louisville. Besides being home for the first dozen years of my life, it has been A Place Where Many I Love have lived / still live. I don’t get back nearly often enough, but that’s the great thing about homes. They’re there [...]

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Found via Dear Author, this fun article. The picture at the bottom of the page of President Obama thumbing through is priceless.

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I’m at Beyond the Veil today, talking about my dread of the author photo. Picture included.
And now that I’ve put that behind me, I’m going back in the writing cave. It’s safe in there; no cameras allowed unless I’m the one taking the pictures.

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There was a snake in my driveway when I got back from the gym today. Unfortunately for him, he was tiny, and hiding around the curve. I didn’t see him until we got out of the car that had just run him over, and he was doing the death flops by then. [...]

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