Are you a Spring Cleaner? Is this the time you go through closets and boxes, wash windows and pack away clothes?
The weather in Wisconsin has been a little erratic the past couple of months, so I’m hesitant to put away any warm clothes just yet. However my awesome husband has had some time off this month and has decided that it’s time to clean out the basement, garage, and a collection of boxes that moved with us over ten ...
I rediscovered my love for romance novels after I had my first son. After a few years of post-college literary reading, I needed a respite. I’m a huge fan of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and have read nearly everything they wrote; their writing leaves me breathless. But their subject matter? Not so much.
Like many new mothers, I felt that amazing mix of overwhelming awe and fear that comes with holding your tiny child in your arms, and ...
Wow, we’re in May already! We’re over 1/3 into 2017.
For many romance readers and writers, this time of year means the Romantic Times Convention. I hope a good few of you are lucky enough to be at the fabulous event this week!
(I couldn’t make it this year, but I wish all the readers, writers, and the terrific RT team a great event. It’s always awesome fun and I expect this year will be extra-special in Atlanta.)
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Last night my book club and I had the first fire pit of the year, and today it’s cool and rainy with temperatures in the low 60s. Gotta love spring in Wisconsin!
I still have Christmas in April on my mind, though, and I checked in with a few more authors whose Christmas-themed books I read. If you missed last week’s post, I mentioned the fact that over the past decade or so “Christmas in April” has come to represent ...
At the end of 2016, I requested a few Christmas titles from a few publishers, and while I was able to enjoy them over the season, it was a little late to write about them during the season.
So I decided to do something a little fun and informative with the authors. For the last two weeks in April, I’ll be highlighting the titles and celebrating the spirit of Christmas in April.
Over the past decade or so, “Christmas in ...
Yay! April’s here!
There’s something special about April, with its exuberant celebration of spring—flowers blooming, trees blossoming, leaves unfurling, reaching for the sun.
I can appreciate that feeling, and love that this is the time of year when we can step outside and tilt our faces up to the sky and feel the warmth of the season on our skin. Like those aspiring leaves, I often feel recharged and regenerated this month, prepared to shake myself out of the quasi-hibernation ...
April is here, though you wouldn’t know it from my window view - snow is falling! (sigh) Thankfully it’s not sticking, and according to the forecast, it will be seventy degrees by the weekend. Mother Nature seems to be slightly confused in the Midwest this spring, and the national news can make my heart feel cold, but I’m glad we can all keep warm, inside and out, with some good romance reading.
What are you looking forward to? Here are some ...
As we close out March, I thought it would be a nice salute to women’s history month to focus on some great historical romance and some truly terrific romance heroines!
First off, I wanted to give a major shout-out to a debut novel that was released this week, Lisa Berne’s You May Kiss the Bride (which earned a starred review). The book is delightful, and I loved it for many reasons, but Livia is a gem of a character and ...
