What was your inspiration for BECOMING MY SISTER? Either from true crimes or from modern celebrity culture? I live in Palm Springs and have been at events and people’s homes and estates in what is the setting for this novel, The Movie Colony. So first, I thought of it as a perfect V.C. Andrews location, meaning the setting plays a dramatic role in the story. In our culture now especially, celebrity is almost a religious thing. People apply to celebrities what they apply to icons of film and television. Being in their presence is truly an almost spiritual event, even just seeing someone in person. To take that concept and apply it to the mother of two adolescents was a natural V.C. thought for me.  The girls are not so much in rivalry with themselves as they are with the ghosts of old movie stars. How can they compete? What does their mother demand of them in relation to this? How have the learned to deal with it and how does it make them more independent. Their father is almost oblivious to it all.  Gish, our man character, named after Lillian Gish, looks to her sister Gloria for guidance because…

Your book, DARK FIRE, just came out. It’s part of your “Fireblood Dragon” series. I think that might be the only series of yours I haven’t dipped into. Can you explain for readers what that world is about? Where it takes place and the basic dynamic between species. DARK FIRE is set in the world of Fireblood Dragons, which is our world, except seven years in the past, a Rift between worlds was torn open and a host of dragons flew into our world from another. The dragons immediately went crazy and destroyed everything, killing, and destroying until there wasn’t much of civilization left.  Now people live in ‘forts’ set up in old cities and try to eke out an existence. Turns out that the dragons aren’t just sky-sharks – they’re also people. Shifter people! And the only thing that can tame a male dragon is a mate.   I was so happy to find out your Ice Planet Barbarian books were being reissued. I have many of them on my kindle, but with the new covers being so pretty, I might finally get print copies of my favorites. Will all your Ice Planet Barbarian books be reissued? I get…

1–What is the title of your latest release? WITCH IN RETROGRADE released January 2022. 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? 49-year-old Police Detective and witch, Sarah Jane Prentice, navigates life without her husband as she faces a serial killer in her town, a nosy spirit guide, and the loss of her magic. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Originally, I had the book set in Atlanta, but quickly realized its been more than 25 years since I lived there, and cities change so much. Placing it in California, specifically Silicon Valley gave me a great opportunity to share what I’ve learned living here for the past 10 years. I’ve really grown to love the area and setting is a character unto itself, so I’m excited about presenting it that way. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely. I like her a lot. Which is important to me as a writer because I intend to spend a lot of time with her in the future. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Smart, determined, no nonsense and loving. I know, I know that’s four. LOL 6–What’s something you…

1–What is the title of your latest release? BARGAINING FOR THE BARRISTER, a Matchmaking Mama Romance book 1 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Louisa Cox is tired of fortune hunters pursuing her dowry. So when a league of matronly matchmakers offers to find her an eligible suitor, Louisa eagerly accepts. Paul, the man who is selected to be her future husband, is a complete stranger. But he has one thing in his favor: he is unaware of her fortune. Bargaining for the Barrister is a Regency Romance with an abundance of humor and heart.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I fell in love with images of a castle in Yorkshire during my research (stalk me on Pinterest to see my saved pins!) and knew I had to set a story in the same countryside.   4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely! Louisa radiates positive energy. She can see the bright side of any situation. Everyone needs a Louisa in their life.   5–What are three words that describe your hero? Selfless, loyal, determined   6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned…

A trio of real-life personages followed by fictional characters who illumine a dramatic period of British history – the abdication of King Edward VI – make up this month’s selection of historical fiction.   We begin with THE GOLDEN PRINCE by Rebecca Dean. Seventeen-year-old Prince Edward is already chafing at the stifling role he’s being pressed into, feeling unloved by the disciplinarian father he can never please and his cool and unsympathetic mother.  When a car accident makes him an unexpected house guest at Snowberry Manor, he is brought into the “ordinary,” less complicated world of the Houghton sisters, granddaughters of Lord May of Snowberry.  Free for once to just be himself, he’s particularly drawn to Lilly, the talented and artistic youngest daughter, who is equally drawn to him.  Soon the two fall headlong into love.  Dean adds layers to her story by including the lives of Lilly’s sisters: Rose, the suffragette and journalist who wants to avoid romantic entanglements; Marigold, a “fast” girl interested in men, parties and high society, and Iris, who longs only for a home and family of her own with the man she loves.  But much as Lilly brings out the best in Edward, can…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Greta Rose West! Writes: Greta writes Small-town Western romance, but it ain’t sweet! Wisper, Wyoming may be a fictional small town, but once you get there, you’ll never wanna leave. About: Internationally Bestselling author, Greta Rose West, enjoys long walks on the beach and seriously manly cowboys with bulging muscles and hurt hearts, looking for their one true loves in all the wrong places. She also enjoys lemon macarons so very much more than she should. She’s a boy mom to a twenty-year-old smart aleck, and her cat is her soul mate. Please don’t tell her husband. The Ideal reader for the first book in the Cade Ranch series, BURNED, should love: Romantic Suspense Grumpy heroes Forced Proximity tropes Alpha cowboys and Feisty heroines Nail-biting suspense Small-town stories with little old ladies who fight hard for their adopted sons and who don’t take any bull from those boys And Greta’s ideal reader should love STEAM—explicitly described and deliciously sexy! What to expect if we’re compatible: You should expect to…

“The house still isn’t for sale.” Melanie’s gaze strayed toward the stairs. “Look, why don’t we go somewhere to sit down and have a cup of coffee to discuss this? My feet hurt.” I knew there had to be another reason she wanted to leave. Melanie’s feet would have to be bleeding and on fire for her to say that wearing heels had been a bad idea. “There’s no discussion,” Beau said. “I own this house and it isn’t for sale.” I tilted my head back to look him in the eyes. “Well, the MLS says differently. And I’m calling my agent right now to make an offer.” Before he could respond, Jolene said, “There’s an adorable café right down the street, on Burgundy.” “Is it vegan?” Beau asked. “Assuming Nola still prefers cardboard to real food.” “I’m sure I can find something,” I said, less annoyed than I should have been. He’d remembered something about me that wasn’t pitiful. Which probably meant that he could recall more about me than I would have liked, but at least that part was from an earlier time, before the worst parts. “Fine,” I said. “But I’m not changing my mind.” Melanie practically…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present J.L. Lora! Writes: She writes contemporary and romantic suspense stories about people who are not all bad or all good but 100% real. Her stories explore the dark side of good characters, people living in the gray areas of life while playing the cards life has dealt them. Her characters fall in love hard and fight through many obstacles–including themselves–on their way to their HEA. About: J.L. is a Dominican-American author and loves strong heroines and their equally powerful Men. You can find her pursuing her dream of writing compelling, sexy, can’t-put-down stories about empowered, badass alpha heroines and take-your-breath-away alpha heroes   What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match: My ideal reader match for my latest book, SOME DAYS, must love… A strong, independent heroine. A hot hero with a save-the-world complex. Intricate subplots that deal with heavy subjects. Sass and sarcasm. Insane chemistry between protagonists. Push and pull in the relationship.   What to expect if we’re compatible: You’ll want…

I’m curious about the world these Dangerous Damsels stories take place in. Is it a real time and place in history, but with a magical twist? Or is it set in some alternate, yet similar to our own, world? It’s real Victorian England, with the twist that a magical incantation was discovered many years before and a small group of people have access to it. Despite the fantasy element, the general setting is firmly established in historical reality – and yet, I also had to consider what that reality might look like under the circumstances of pirates in flying houses!   How does the Wisteria Society crime sorority of the first book in this series compare to The League of Gentlewomen Witches? The Wisteria Society and the Wicken League are remarkably similar to each other, although they would not agree with this. Both groups make claims in a decidedly resolute manner (ie, using guns, sharpened hat pins, and snubbing each other at parties) as to their superiority, but the fact is, even these powerful and dangerous magic-wielding women still find themselves conforming to the essential norms of Victorian culture. I’m interested in showing how women in a prevailingly patriarchal environment…

1–What is the title of your latest release? My new book is called SADIE ON A PLATE.   2–What is it about? Sadie’s at her lowest point both professionally and personally after being fired from her job as a chef by her ex-boyfriend/boss (yep, bad decision). So when she gets the chance to compete on popular reality cooking show Chef Supreme, she hopes it’ll be just the boost she and her career need. Her optimism spikes when she has a great, romantic meet-cute with this guy Luke on the plane that turns into a whirlwind date… except when she turns up to set the next day, she learns with horror that he’s the new judge on the show. If they can’t keep their feelings for each other secret, she’ll get kicked off the show. But how long can they tamp down the heat between them before the pot boils over?   3–What do you love about the setting of your book?  I’m obsessed with reality cooking shows, especially Top Chef, so creating the set for a fictional Top Chef-esque reality show was so much fun! I loved imagining the fancy kitchen gadgets, stocked pantry, and the one singular ice cream…