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The Great Treading Water Debate

It happens every time I do any sort of promotion for Treading Water, the inevitable one-star reviews about my “cheating” hero. These comments always take me back more than ten years now, to writing that book and the dilemma I faced on behalf of my character, Jack. His wife is in a coma after a […]

Jealousy

I butted up against professional jealousy for the first time in my career this week, and it has made me sad, not just for myself but for the other person involved. In an online forum we were in together, this now-ex-author friend apparently found me to be boastful because I like to talk about what’s […]

Keeping Time

On Friday, I hosted another installment of my ongoing Friday Night Follies in which readers ask me questions, I give answers and hand out prizes to participants. It’s always a lot of fun, but I do get some of the same questions from one week to the next. One of them, in particular, led me […]

Marie Inspires on HooplaHa.com

I’m giving away some secrets in this new video recorded by the folks at HooplaHa.com, a great site that shares inspirational stories, including mine. You may not know that I was a somewhat lackluster student and my early rejections as an author counted into the hundreds. Well, don’t let me tell you too much. See […]

The Entrepreneurial Ortons Are Impressed With Marie’s Business and Story-Building

Cabot Orton was a bit apprehensive. Just how risqué, he wondered, would this book inspired by his family’s Vermont Country Store be? Fortunately for the family reputation, Marie’s Green Mountain Series of books turned out to be “charming and sweet-natured” while still packing her hallmark hot romance. “We thought it was really flattering, actually, that she […]

Advantage: Author

My 17-year-old son Jake and I had an interesting conversation recently about technology and how it has evolved in positive and negative ways. Depending on your point of view, technology has enabled us to do so many new things we never could’ve dreamed of even ten years ago, and it has changed the way we […]

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