I’ve been traveling for just shy of a month now. (I just got home today!) So many times someone has asked me, “Where are you from?” I’ve been more confused about how to answer than most people need to be.  :)  I live in Sydney, but I’m not Australian and my American accent confuses people [...]

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I’m in New York City right now at the 2011 Romance Writer’s of America National Conference. Woo-hooo!! Over the next few days I’ll attend numerous workshops, learn a lot about the new ways we’re creating and selling books (i.e., digital solutions), meet new people, and hug old friends. While I’m here, I decided to add [...]

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When coming up with our pretend characters, we try to keep them as realistic as possible. But in a pretend way. In my screenwriting class last night, the teacher and the actors who were reading our scripts aloud commented that you don’t want your characters to be realistic in a boring way. Cut to the [...]

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