The Good Girl One night, Mia Dennett enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn’t show, she leaves with an enigmatic stranger. At first, Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home turns out to be the worst mistake of Mia’s life. “The Good Girl” is […]
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Cutting Myself off from My Writing Soul The early 2000’s were not kind to my writing career. In 1998, I quit my job to become a freelance copywriter. Part of the reason why I wanted to start my writing business is because I thought I would have more time to work on my novels. I
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Don’t You Cry In downtown Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to “My Dearest” is found among her possessions, leaving her roommate Quinn Collins to question how well she really knew her friend. Meanwhile, in a small town an hour outside Chicago, a mysterious woman appears in
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How I Almost Let a Bad Review Derail My Career In November 2015, I published my first novel, “The Stolen Twin.” And in launching that book, I did pretty much everything completely wrong. I’ll detail all my book marketing mistakes in another post, but today, I want to share how I very nearly pulled the
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This Happened to Jessica Wow. Just. Wow. All my books have a bit of a story behind the writing. “Mirror Image” (which I wrote first but published second) took me about twenty years to write. I got the initial idea when I was a teenager, and it took all that time to get a real
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The Lying Game The day after a dog charges into the water after a stick but discovers something more sinister, three women in and around London—Fatima, Thea, and Isabel—receive a text they had always hoped would NEVER come from the fourth in their formerly inseparable clique, Kate, that says only, “I need you.” Even though
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How the Eclipse Changed My Writing Life 2017 will forever be remembered as the year I became a writer. That likely sounds strange to you. After all, I’m a professional copywriter. I’ve been earning a living as a writer since 1998 when I started my freelance copy business. I began the transformation into owner of
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Why, thanks for asking. Well first, I’ve gotten into a daily habit of writing 1,000 words, and that’s really helped keep the momentum going. Second, I’m still working on my new three-book series, “Secrets of Redemption.” The first book, “It Began with a Lie,” is pretty much done. I thought it WAS done a few
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