Happy Cottage Eve!! (IYKYK) The spouse and I leave for the airport in a few hours for the annual family holiday cruise. I'll be spending my birthday this year in Puerto Rico, where my goal is to eat mofongo and drink mojitos, which sounds like the best way to celebrate turning the answer to life, … Continue reading Holiday Letter 2025
Con Report: Rainbow Readers Cruise 2024
You know I love cruises. You know I love conventions. You better believe that I was one of the first people signed up when this convention on a cruise was announced! Even more exciting (and possibly appropriate), the Rainbow Readers Cruise 2024 was also my first official appearance in my new romance author guise. Then … Continue reading Con Report: Rainbow Readers Cruise 2024
May Wrap-Up & June Goals
I did so well in May! I wrote! I read! I adventured! Not as much of all of those as I would have preferred, especially since the day job ate me for the solid week before I left on my vacation at the end of the month, but I suppose we can't have it all. … Continue reading May Wrap-Up & June Goals
[out of office]
Book reviews are on hiatus for a week, and my next monthly wrap-up & goals post will be a few days later than usual. Because I'm going on vacation! The spouse and I are hitting the high seas, accompanied by our Atlanta friends. Funny story: close to 15 years of friendship, and we've never actually … Continue reading [out of office]
December Wrap-Up & January Goals
Happy New Year! Let's approach 2023 with caution, offer it treats, and hope only good things come of it. I'm home from my fantastic holiday vacation, both wishing I was back at the beach and looking forward to everything I get to do in the months to come. Lots of authors have shared some truly … Continue reading December Wrap-Up & January Goals
The Real World Returns…
My husband and I are home safe from our amazing vacation. We spent a great 10 days aboard Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas, which sailed out of Baltimore to tool around the Caribbean for a few days. The time was well-spent relaxing and recharging and just spending some quality time together before the husband … Continue reading The Real World Returns…
March Wrap-Up & April Goals
Some highs and lows this month, for sure. See last Friday's post about the major milestones in my life I'm currently in the middle of. March Wrap-Up: Complete the scene-by-scene outline for book 4, Steel Time. It turns out that the power in the 'verse that can stop me is my own brain! I have … Continue reading March Wrap-Up & April Goals