Category: #MFRWauthor 52-Week Blog Challenge 2018

This week’s writing prompt is, My Most Romantic Memory. I wasn’t feeling very well. I had a tingling in the back of my throat that usually precedes a cold and I had an exam on Monday I couldn’t miss, so I went to the nearest drug store for some vitamin C and echinacea. I came home Read More

This week’s writing prompt is, How I work up Character/Setting Profiles. Honestly, I’m not sure what this question is asking. I’ve never done this. I mean, I do put a lot of thought into characters, but they really get fleshed out as I’m writing. I don’t do in-depth character or profile settings. If anyone knows what that Read More

This week’s writing prompt is, Favorite Romance Genre to Read or Write. I hope the answer to this prompt is fairly obvious from my tagline (Darkly Beautiful Romance) and from my book covers. I love Gothic romances! I discovered Gothic romance when I was in graduate school. I’m talking Anne Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, even Jane Austen’s Read More

This week’s writing prompt is, How I celebrate completing my manuscript. This is easy. Bottoms up! My drink of choice lately is Bailey’s Irish Cream, which is so damn delicious, I don’t know how I lived for 35 years without it. But I also love a good cocktail. I’ve always loved margaritas, but I’ll try anything Read More

This week’s writing prompt is, what I learned from my worst review. I don’t make it a habit to read reviews regularly. Authors are never supposed to respond to reviews, which can be difficult if you read them too much and put too much stock into them. So I do a general check of reviews Read More

This week’s writing prompt is, What I learned when researching my book… When I was writing The Vampire’s Daughter, I did a ton of research on vampires. I also was doing research for my thesis, which was also on vampires, so a lot of the research was academic. One term I came across and used in Read More

This week’s writing prompt is, My Contest Experiences… The first time I won a contest that I remember was in my early teens, and this is really going to date me. I had stayed home from school “sick” and was watching a local talk show. During the show they always had a segment where you could Read More

This week’s writing prompt is, If I never had to do this one task again…. I don’t think it is any coincidence that the day I hired a housekeeper to not only clean, but cook one meal a day, I was able to complete my first novel, one that I had been working on for three Read More

This week’s writing prompt is, Things only my family would understand. “Blood is thicker than water,” as the old saying claims. While I would agree that family bonds can be powerful, my immediate family would vehemently disagree that a family is based on blood ties. I’m not related to my husband – my partner and Read More

This week’s writing prompt is, What I would invent if I were stuck on an island. Oh no! Please don’t ask me this. I’m not technically inclined at all and I cannot create anything with my hands that doesn’t involve typing.  My goal would be to get off the island, but I doubt I’d be Read More