Insider secrets of WINGS IN THE NIGHT VIDEO VERSION OF THIS POST TEXT VERSION BELOW First the backstory *When I was a little girl my parents would go to these auctions and come home with huge boxes of comic books. I always took out all the horror comics and let my little siblings have the rest. Okay, sometimes, I got into Archie and even Sabrina, but mostly, I was about the horror. This might've been a clue. *For my entire childhood, as far as I recall, every Sunday afternoon

Video Edition of this post above this line. Text Edition below. How it started: "Okay, I'll write one western romance." How it's going: "I just started my 25th western romance." Here's how that began, how it spawned, and how it's still going! These are the 9 books of the original Texas Brand series Each book in each series is a complete romance with a satisfying conclusion. Each book features a different couple. While the books within each series are best read in order, the s

WATCH THE VIDEO VERSION OF THIS POST ABOVE ⬆️ READ THE TEXT VERSION BELOW ⬇️ Picture it, a hamlet called Beaver Meadow in the town of Otselic NY, population about 1000. That's the whole town, not the hamlet. There I was, a young mother with five little girls each one a little smaller than the one before. I was a young, stay-at-home mom with a dream. I wanted to be a writer. I thought I was pretty good. I'd found a local group of writers, the Central New York Romance Writers w

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