This week is an important milestone in my writing life, but it has very little to do with me. This week is all about my critique partner, Karen Stivali, and her stunning novel, Meant To Be, which finally gets to have its book birthday! Karen was polishing her first draft of Meant To Be when she and I met on former literary agent Nathan Bransford’s message boards. I remember it vividly…the story was fully written, but she couldn’t decide on a first chapter. My novel, Bring Me Back, was…

The Foreign Affairs romance anthology from Turquoise Morning Press is out today in e-book format. (Trade paperback out October 8.) Available from: Amazon | Turquoise Morning Press | Smashwords | All Romance This steamy collection features stories of dreamy foreign men from all over the globe, penned by Sidney Bristol, Michelle Garren Flye, J.M. Kelley, Karen Stivali, Georgia St. Mane, and myself.  Anthology author Sidney Bristol is here to get things started by tempting us with visions of French men and her story, Dream Vacation. In a few…

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