There are at least two of me. Really. Not just that I have two names, one for my real life, one for my literary life. It’s the literary life that splits me into different personalities. I define myself as writing dangerous love, but that has a broader meaning for me than it used to. I’ve [...]

Along with using social media as publicist Rebecca Crowley suggested yesterday, many career authors are digitizing available backlist and making their ebooks available in various formats as a way to promote themselves and interest new readers. And there are increasing numbers of readers who have Amazon’s Kindle, BN’s Nook, the Borders Kobo, Apple’s iPad and [...]

I’ve been a movie junkie ever since I was a kid. Every Friday, Mom would pick me up from school and we’d go to see a double feature. Movies have been a part of my fantasy life every bit as much as novels. So several years ago, when I started reading snippets about Bollywood movies [...]

Well, okay, maybe not a license to kill. How about a passport? What does that have to do with writing? The passport is for a research trip to India, a setting I’m using in a new novel I’m developing, and I’ve never been to India. Whenever I am forced to deal with the government, I [...]