Blogging Your Heart's Desire
In 1999, I was in Budapest, preparing a photographic exhibition about the vanished Jews of Eastern Europe, when I heard about the Kunmadaras pogrom: In May 1946, Holocaust survivors were accused of kidnapping Christian children and using their blood for kosher sausage. Grabbing iron bars, garden tools, any weapon they could find, the town’s residents […]
In 1877, twenty Irish coal miners hanged for a terrorist conspiracy that never occurred. BLURB Anywhere But Schuylkill is the story of one who escaped, Mike Doyle, a teenager trying to find a new home before his alcoholic uncle kills one of his siblings. He takes a job with a union leader, who is also a […]
BOOK INFORMATION Book Title: Dude or Die Series: H Double Bar Dude Ranch series Author: Lynn Downey Publication Date: October 15, 2023 Publisher: Pronghorn Press Page Length: 328 Genre: Historical Fiction BLURB: It’s 1954, and San Francisco writer Phoebe Kelley is enjoying the success of her first novel, Lady in the Desert. When Phoebe’s sister-in-law […]
Most of the books Mr. Kraft and I write together are steamy erotic romance, typically (but not always) featuring bisexual women. But that’s not where we got our start. When I started this year-long backlist review in my New Years Day blog post HERE, I noted that we accomplished our first goal – to be […]
For week four, I’m featuring Full Circle, my second submission and acceptance at Extasy Books, published in 2007. You can read more about the story behind Full Circle and its link to the Tarot Three of Cups HERE. Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday, the weekly hop for everyone who loves to […]
A red-hot Hawaiian romance blooms for a buttoned-up botanist who must learn to let go and embrace the ancient voice within her. Book Information Book Title: Bound in Roses Series: Hawaiian Ladies Riding Society Author: Katherine Kayne Publication Date: January 23, 2024 Publisher: Passionflower Press Page Length: 397 Genre: Historical Romance (Gilded Age) Blurb: After […]
For week four, I’m featuring my second submission and acceptance with Extasy Books, published in 2007. You can read more about the story behind Full Circle HERE. Welcome to MFRW Hooks, where the authors of Marketing for Romance Writers share snippets from their stories to entice you into wanting more. Be sure to click on the […]
In 1828, two young women were torn apart as they were sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay. Will they ever meet again? Book Information Book Title: The Low Road Author: Katharine Quarmby Publication Date: UK: 22nd June 2023. US: 19th September 2023. Australia/NZ: 2nd January 2024 Publisher: Unbound Publishing Page Length: 400 Genre: Historical Fiction […]
Three of Cups: Bounty, abundance, celebration, fruition…all have come full circle Is it Erotica? Is it Erotic Romance? The next book Mr. Kraft and I published blurs the boundary and is the steamiest book we’ve ever written: Full Circle, published in 2007. Readers born any time after the seventies probably won’t remember a time when […]
For week three, I’m featuring my first submission and acceptance with Extasy Books, published in 2007. You can read more about the story behind The Diary and the choice to set it in Chicago and the U.K. HERE. Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday, the weekly hop for everyone who loves to write – and read! […]