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What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Grump and Grumpier? Many of my ideas start with a “meet cute,” which in the case of this book, was actually a “meet scandalously!” I wanted to explore what would happen if my main character, Ana, gives in to her urges and behaves very […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write The Scarlet D? After writing my last book, Long Enough to Love You, I received much feedback that older, more mature women are underrepresented in romance. The story of second chances later in life seems rarely written about. The Scarlet D is a story […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Vendetta? I love gangster films and tv, and when I read the story about New York’s first mafia family I felt like it was a story that people would love to read and that I’d love to write. If you had to pick theme […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write In Love with the Devil? I like to read and write very dark stories to entertain and help survivors overcome trauma. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of In Love with the Devil, what would they be? “Game of […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write The Granite Bay Murder Club? I had an idea about telling a story from third-person view and not revealing the narrator’s gender or identity. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of The Granite Bay Murder Club, what would they […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write The Bluff? Most people can relate to having an issue in their neighborhood that causes conflict and turmoil, and many communities are dealing with the impact of eroding shorelines. A friend of mine had this happen to her home and I thought it would […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Vetlandia? I had a 40 year career as a clinical psychologist and researcher. A significant amount of that time was spent in what the most quoted sociologist of the 20th Century, Irving Goffman, popularized as “total institutions.” In such facilities, the life space of […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Fortune Favors the Bold? The original idea for the series, “War of the Submarine,” hit me while I was a student at the Naval War College. A friend and I started spit balling about how World War III would start and what kind of […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Highlands Homecoming (Highlands Christmas Book 3)? Well, it’s book 3 in the series. I needed to wrap things up! But what originally inspired me was that I was in a dark place with the pandemic and everything else going on in the world. I […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Yesterday’s Paper (The Knocknashee Story Book 2)? It is book two in a series set during world war 2 involving a friendship between and Irish woman and an American man though letters. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of […]