Music City Romance Writers Meet & Greet This Saturday

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Music City Romance Writers Meet & Greet This Saturday

The Music City Romance Writers Meet & Greet  is this Saturday, May 18, 2013, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Williamson County Public Library

Music City romance authors are meeting readers and sharing their young adult and adult genre novels.  From cowboys, small town romances, and secret babies to romantic suspense and post-apocalyptic fantasy—this meet and greet will have an author for every reader. Food and drinks provided. Books sold on site. Prizes given away every half hour.

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Celebrate National Poetry Month With Me

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Celebrate National Poetry Month With Me

My first love growing up was poetry. Though I had dual majors in college, I was an English Lit major at heart. Politics was fun, and stimulating, and, well, practical. But I reveled in the literature course work. Who wouldn’t – homework consisted of reading. Poetry, the classics – my battered, dog-earned, written upon Norton’s Anthology of English Literature was my most prized possession. It still is.

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April Newsletter

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April 2013
Volume XXII

Dear friends: 

Spring has sprung! April Fools — no, it hasn’t. I’m writing you from Colorado today, where I am currently enveloped in a heavenly blizzard. We’ve been here for the past few weeks on retreat and have had two major winter storms, both in the 14-inch range. I don’t know if you’ve read about my rather unique upbringing in the wilderness — if not, here’s a little of it in my unofficial bio, and an essay I did about growing up in the woods. Oh, chickens, there’s something about snow on the pine trees that yanks me back in time. 

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On What Do You Do When You Finish Writing a Book?

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On What Do You Do When You Finish Writing a Book?

A major capital M Moment in my mythology. Catherine Coulter and I have just finished the revised version of our first novel together, The Final Cut. We started the research in June 2012, writing began July 15, 2012. Nine months and three days later, we've birthed a massive, intricate international thriller, introduced a whole new cast of characters for the 'A Brit in the FBI' series, and created a new iconic male lead -- Nicholas Drummond -- a man whose skills and repartee rival James Bond. 

So what do you do when you've just sent off a behemoth of a novel that's consumed your every waking moment for the past nine months of your life?  Here's a glimpse into my 24 hour post-partum period:

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