Goodreads Giveaway! Enter to Win a Copy of FRAMED!

Today is the start of a free Giveaway on Goodreads for a copy of my humorous mystery, Framed! Click HERE to go to my Goodreads page, then scroll down to Enter to Win a copy! Good luck and thanks for entering! 

Author Showcase and Book Signing a HUGE Success!

I was delighted to participate in an Author Showcase hosted by the Douglas County Library yesterday, and held at the Highlands Ranch Library. This event was organized by Lisa Casper, Program Branch Liaison. Lisa did a fabulous job and I think everyone truly enjoyed the event!

Twelve authors-including myself-spoke about our books and, afterward, signed and sold copies. We had great turnout-standing room only!

I was delighted to see many friends in the crowd, and to meet new ones. It's always fun to talk with my readers and inscribe my books for them!

This is my local library district and I'm fortunate that they are on the cutting edge of promotion of local authors as well as inclusion of authors e-books in their stacks! My books are available in all Douglas Country Libraries in either paperback or e-books format.

Thanks so much to all who attended!

Sparks of The Imagination

Someone asked me the other day how I went about dreaming up my stories. That's a hard one to answer...I felt like asking her how she breathed? Characters, situations and plot twists come from my imagination and for a writer, I believe, our imaginations are so much a part of everything that makes us tick.

Could I shut down my creativity? Perhaps...but what fun would that be? Do I daydream? You bet! And I dream-yes, occasionally I wake with an idea that can't be ignored. Other times something in the news or something in my life gets the juices going. Even if I tried not to write, life surrounds me with tempting flashes of plotting possibilities that my brain just can't ignore.

No...I don't have personal experiences with murder (thank goodness!) but a good cozy mystery is more than the act. There's the interesting job or the quirky neighbor next door or the creepy Realtor who insinuates that if you don't like the house she's showing you something bad might happen...so you will like it...if you now what is good for you! Okay, I got carried away there, I've never met a creepy Realtor, but wasn't that fun to follow me down that rabbit hole?

I love strong, empowered women in fiction-especially when they don't know their own strength and have a funny bone too! Add in a good friend who wants to help them find a job or find a lover or find the real murderer and now my imagination just gets rolling along with the spark of endless possibility!

For a writer, writing is like having fireworks bursting in your mind-you simply can't ignore it!  


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