Music and Silence: Wedding Bell Blues

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At the end of Finder, Emma Bull’s author bio has a neat thing: the soundtrack for the book. She lists the songs she listened to while she was writing, and it’s pretty extensive (also, from my point of view, sort of obscure). Bull is obviously one of those writers who likes to listen to music […]

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Animas, Crested Butte, and Vinotok

Unseen and Found, books 2 and 3 in my Folk Trilogy, both take place at least in part in a Colorado mountain town, Animas. In Unseen,  the town is having its annual Fall Festival. When my critique partner read the first chapter, she asked me where on earth I’d gotten the idea for the characters […]

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Behind the Scenes With Wild Love

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Writing Wild Love, the third of my Brewing Love books, involved research—pleasurable research, but research nonetheless. When I first moved to Colorado a few years ago, I didn’t know much about beer. I mostly drank the big commercial brands like everybody else, and I didn’t drink much of those. But Colorado is craft beer central—we […]

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Same world, new characters, what makes a series?

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Found, Book 3 in my Folk series, has been nominated for a Prism award by the Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal  chapter of Romance Writers of America. To celebrate, let me tell you a little about the series itself. I’ve written lots of series in my day, both contemporary (Konigsburg, Texas; The Salt Box Trilogy; Brewing […]

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“Found” Nominated for Prism Award

“Found”, Book 3 in the Folk Trilogy, has been nominated for a prestigious Prism Award by the Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal chapter of the Romance Writers of America. The book is one of three nominees in the “Light Paranormal” category. The Prism Award ceremony will be held online this year. […]

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Beer Romance

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So I’m sitting at my table at the big Shameless Book Con sale with copies of my Brewing Love series spread out in front of me. A browsing shopper pauses. “What are these about?” she asks. “They’re about a craft brewery in a Colorado mountain town,” I explain. “The brewmaster is the heroine of the […]

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Wild Love Out Now

The long-awaited (well I waited a long time!) third book in the Brewing Love Trilogy is now available. Here’s the blurb. After one bad relationship too many, Peaches Guidry came to the mountain resort town of Antero, Colorado to start over. Now, she’s manager of a great restaurant and on her way to bigger and […]

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