Christmas just keeps on giving.  Julie Miller is a multi-published Romance author out of Grand Island, Nebraska.  I think her path to publication is very interesting.  If you’re like me and have a few gift cards from family and friends for books, you might think about checking out Julie’s newest release. Where are you from? [...]

Eileen Boggess is another local author I met at the Author Fair here in Des Moines this fall.  I think you will agree that she has a very interesting story: Where are you from? I was born in Davenport, IA and currently live in Urbandale, IA   How long have you been writing? I started [...]

This week, I would like to introduce a local author, Paula Risely-Duchin, who has plunged into the world of self-publishing.  I think she has an interesting and unique story.  She uses her creative side for marketing as well as creating her work. Here’s Paula:     Where are you from? – West Des Moines, Iowa   How long [...]

I met *lizzie starr recently when she came with a couple other members of an Omaha chapter of RWA to do a program.  The were the judges for a ‘So You Think You Can Write’ show. Members of my chapter – Iowa Romance Novelists – volunteered to read some of their work and be judged by the panel.  *lizzie [...]

It was the first minute of my first day and my first impulse was to run.  Just turn around and get the hell out of there as fast as I could.  In that frozen moment between initial response and subsequent action, I stood mute, my vision tunneled to the desk in front of me.  It [...]

Do you like to read and are you a do-it-yourself type person? If so, I’d like to introduce Jennie Bentley, the author of the DIYseries.  Along with a most satisfying read, especially if you are a cozy mystery fan, she provides do-it-yourself advice that she used in the story.  In Spackled and Spooked she shows [...]

Responding as a write, I would say: I was from war. I was driven to writing after a year in Vietnam that featured the battle of Kai San and the Tet Offensive.

If you love a story that touches your heart, you need to read everything Cheryl St. John writes.  Cheryl belongs to the Heartland Writers Group out of Omaha, Nebraska.  I met her too many years ago to admit and have been hooked on her books ever since.   Here is out interview –  Virginia – Where [...]

Francesca Hawley is the type of person who can walk into a room and light it up.  I think she carries that gift over into her books.  I attended a program where she explained the different steaminess levels of sex scenes in the romantic genre, from the sweet romance that usually stops at the bedroom [...]

The headline said ‘The Butcher of Crows Creek Strikes Again.’ Allison Clemen’s father had spent the past fifteen years in prison for butchering her mother, sister and brother. Somehow, she’d survived being knocked on the head and strangled before the killer posed her in her own bed. Now the nightmare had started over in Crows Creek, Kansas. Had they convicted the wrong man and was the real killer just waiting to finish the job?