I'm heading to the Fort Walton Beach area for the fabulous Emerald Coast Writers Conference!Here's a link for more information about the conference.Here's a clip from last year's conference.And another clip.

It's been a wild and crazy week! Ian came home from college for a few days and then Andrew came home yesterday. While here, he purchased his first new car!I really enjoyed the joy ride with him this morning 🙂

From Silken Sands ConferenceThe 2010 Silken Sands Conference was wonderful. Beautiful beach setting, wonderful workshops and great people! Pictured above are Karen Rose, Barbara Vey and Kathy Carmichael. Here's the slideshow of a few photos 🙂

I'll be signing copies of Diary of a Confessions Queen today at the Carrollwood Barnes & Noble, 11802 Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa, FL from 2:30 till 4:00, along with other TARA authors including:Debut author Erica Ridley, Jeanie London, Virginia Henley, Joan...

I was really excited to learn that HOT FLASH is a finalist in the 2010 New England Reader’s Choice Bean Pot Award! I'm visiting family in Texas right now and it was especially fun to share the news with them :)Here's the complete list of finalists:Finalists are listed...

Listen to a fun podcast of me reading the first chapter of Diary of a Confessions Queen :)You can link to it as a direct download by going here and download to your computer. Or you can play it online by going here.The extremely talented author, Denise Lynn, made a...