• The Big Uneasy is NOW in KindleUnlimited

    The Big Uneasy is Now in Kindle Unlimited!

    Big news, readers! šŸŽ‰ After years of being ā€œwide,ā€ I’ve made the exciting decision to bring The Big Uneasy series into Kindle Unlimited

  • Gumbo Ya-Ya Exit 5, book ten the big uneasy

    Why I Wrote Gumbo Ya-Ya Exit

    I also wrote this book because ten comes after nine. It was ten’s turn.

  • Why I wrote Family Treed and Louisiana Lagniappe

    I was searching through all my posts and realized that I didn’t write a ā€œwhy I wroteā€ for Family Treed, my short story in my Big Uneasy series. I might not have done it because it was a short story. I honestly don’t remember. So I think I’ll cover both ā€œFamily Treedā€ and Louisiana Lagniappe…

  • Remind Me Why DEAD SPACES Happened?

    We write books for lots of reasons. Usually, there isn’t one ā€œthis is why I wrote this book.ā€ Which is why I have, and like, this feature. I’m curious why authors write the books they write. And believe it or not, I’m curious why I wrote a particular book. (You’d think I’d know, wouldn’t you?)…

  • Why Cherie Claire Wrote Ticket to Paradise

      Years ago I got the call from Hollywood — but it’s not what you think. I nabbed a job as an Internet editor forĀ Variety.com, the entertainment news daily. I was honored and thrilled, even though that little voice inside my head kept saying, ā€œI thought you weren’t happy in web work, missed the people…

  • What’s Going On Around Here?

    The hermit (me) has been out of the hermit house a crazy amount of time, so I’m still flailing a bit on this blog. So I thought I’d flail less and mention some new things around here that you may not have noticed yet. If you’ve ever stopped by what was my main website, you…

  • Why Shona Husk Wrote DESIRE TO FALL

    Desire to Fall was one of those ideas I had that I thought would be fun and that I originally wrote for myself (I’m selfish like that. I write what I think will be fun…which may not be the best strategy for building a long term career as an author as what I think is…

  • Why Lindsay McKenna Wrote NOWHERE TO HIDE

    In the late 1980’s, I created Morgan’s Mercenaries, a romantic military suspense family saga-series. It went on to become 45 books strong, best selling, around the globe and put into 33 foreign languages. I created the military romance genre in 1983 with Captive of Fate (then, Silhouette Special edition and today, Harlequin). Today, military romantic…

  • First She Read. Then She Wrote

    So, a long time ago, and not that far away, there was a girl who loved to read. She loved to read so much that she’d sneak-read under the bed covers when she was supposed to be asleep. She’d try to read while walking to and from school. Mixed success there. She’d even try to…

  • A Foot in the Past

    Do you ever look at a photo and wish you could do a Mary Poppins and pop into the picture for a visit? I’d love to do that with this photo. I’ve always been drawn the villages built of stone and that are venerable with age, places filled with the ghosts of people who used…