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A Yummy Chance to Win a Copy of Black Heart

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAAs some of you might know, Black Heart, the first of the Cursed Heart series books will be released in a couple of weeks on June 22nd. to be exact. Right now we're adding the finishing touches, double checking edits and pretty much working around the clock to make sure that this book gets the Cursed Hearts series off to the right start.  I thought that it might be fun to have a little contest to give… Read More

Black Heart is now available for Pre-Sale at the iBookstore

Black Heart: A Cursed Heart Series novel is now at iBookstore as a pre-sale item for $2.99. Black HeartThe tentative  publishing date for this novel is June 22, 2013. I would like to thank iBookstore for all their support and help doing this. I really appreciate it and all the great support I've gotten over the years. Thank you to Smashwords.com for excellent support and quality service. Black Heart is the first in a new paranormal series that I've actually been working on for a few years now. During my medical leave… Read More

Black Heart: Cursed Hearts Series

Black Heart Black Heart: A Cursed Heart Novel (The first of eight novels) Coming to an online bookstore near you on June 22, 2013  $2.99   There was something seriously wrong with Marty. That was the only explanation that she could come up with. Why else would she feel this way for the biggest SOB in town? Granted, he was also the hottest man in town, but he was also arrogant, callous, and determined to drive her away even as he drove her crazy with his touch. She should just walk away from him and probably… Read More

Need a little support….and advice on how to sabotage someone’s diet :)

Part of my plan to return to work is to handle my health issues on the side, but with a little fun :) A few of my author friends (L.D. Davis & Lisa M. Harley) want to lose weight, get healthy, raise money for some great charities and screw each other over for fun :) My charities are The Ronald McDonald House and The Make A Wish Foundation. I'm hoping raise an obscene amount of money for these great causes and I could really use your help and support. Below you'll find our release for this challenge that starts on May… Read More

Updated information

Today has been crazy. This morning I took a chance and decided to share something negative that has been going on in the self-publishing world for the past couple of months. It's a practice that is creating a lot of problems for readers, bloggers and authors. Since that post I have received a lot of feedback which I used to edit my suggestions to tell whether or not a review is fake.  A lot of people made some very good points which I tried to stress. A lot of my suggestions can help spot fake reviews, but as a lot… Read More

Indie Romance Convention: Reader’s Choice Awards

The Indie Romance Convention is allowing readers to cast votes for favorite Indie authors and books and Checkmate has been placed in the Best Indie Contemporary Romance category and I've been honored with a best Indie Author nomination. It's a great honor and I'm utterly shocked and psyched about this. If you have a chance, I'd really appreciate it if you could cast your vote. It would mean a great deal to me… Read More

Were you at the Boston Author Event? I need your help.

I only found out about this afterwards, but there was a family, a woman, husband and a little boy who waited outside the Omni on Saturday to meet me for two and a half hours. They drove up yesterday morning, a two hour drive and they were brought in to see me and immediately walked out.  The three of you were shivering and I only got a few minutes with you. I feel really horrible about the whole thing. If this is you or you know who… Read More

Coming soon…………

Coming in the summer of 2013..... The first book of the Cursed Hearts Series.....

Black Heart

            “I’m helping,” she said firmly. “I was not hired simply to drive you around, pick up your food and put up with your bullshit, Tristan. This is part of my job and I’m going to do it. Now you can just suck it up, because you do not… Read More

Things to come

This Saturday I'll be at the Omni Hotel in Boston, MA with a wonderful and very talented group of authors :) I'm looking forward to meeting many of you this weekend. Many of you have inquired about books being available this weekend. I have a limited amount of books available this weekend. I have four boxes and at this point I don't know how many of each that I have. The books will be available while they last for a ten dollar donation. I am doing a book swap for a donation. The donation will go to the Massachusetts chapter… Read More

Playing for Keeps is being featured by Apple

Got some great news from Smashwords.com today. Apple is featuring Playing for Keeps along with many great titles as a Breakout Book. The New York Times and Smashwords.com wrote about Apple's new feature if you'd like more information or you can see a complete list here. It's wonderful news and I just can't thank Apple, Smashwords or the readers enough. Thank you so much for your support over the past year. Everyone has been truly wonderful and it has meant a great deal to me and my family :) -R.L.… Read More