Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. This week we’re talking about change. How do you feel about it, what are some big changes you’ve undergone, what are some changes you’d like to make or that you see coming? Change is inevitable and in today’s world happens faster than ever. With the advent of technology we …
The question in the title is my question to you. What’s your favorite idiom? An idiom is a figure of speech, for instance, “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” First of all, what on earth does that mean? According to Phrases.org, this means: Don’t discard something valuable with something undesirable. The origins and uses …
Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop and Romance on Wheels. This week, we’re talking about Halloween. Traditions, feelings and/or memories. Memories are bittersweet for me. I grew up in a suburb of St. Louis, Mo., and we had free reign as kids and Halloween. My brother and I left the house as soon as it …
Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop and Romance on Wheels. Today, we’re talking about what we hope reader’s take away from our books when they read them. I’ll tell you what I think, you tell me if I’m way off. Deal? When I wrote my first book, Second Chances, which I later retitled to Designing …
Welcome to this week’s Open Book Blog Hop. This week we’re talking about the death of characters, or more specifically: How do you feel about the death of fictional characters? These can be your own or those of other authors. How would you do it? Do you have a criteria for who can die? Would …
Welcome to another installment of Open Book Blog Hop. This week’s topic is: If someone gave you a free plane ticket to anywhere in the world, where would you go and why? This is a question my husband and I ask each other often. Sometimes changed up to where would you live if you could …
Hello and welcome to another installment of Open Book Blog Hop. Today we’re talking about sensory details in writing, or more specifically, infusing sensory details into writing – how do you do it or do you do it? Does it just flow as you write or is it part of the rewrite process, a deliberate …
So back when my first book was published I belonged to a group on Goodreads. This group offered weekly ARC’s and I offered my book up as a sacrificial lamb to this group of readers, who named themselves after a popular erotica novel followed by support group. Therefore I felt my steamy novels would fit …
My family wasn’t big on folklore, nor am I, but this week as we decided to share some of our local folklore I thought, why not? In researching American Folklore, I came up on a site that broke folklore down by state. Naturally, I clicked on Wisconsin and there were several tales of lore, check …
Labor Day – what does it mean and how do you celebrate? Thank you for participating and welcome to Romance on Wheels and our weekly Open Book Blog Hop. So Labor Day is bittersweet for me. I enjoy being able to celebrate my fellow American workers and what we each do to push our …
