Recipe of the Week: Strawberry Daiquiri

At the request of Coffee Time Romance, my strawberry daiquiri recipe. Made with real fruit, it’s loaded with antioxidants. And rum.
1 1/2 cups cold water
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup lime juice
1/2 cup white rum (or more, if you like more punch)
1 16 oz bag frozen strawberries
Pour liquids and sugar into a blender and [...]

Addicted to the BBC

Some of you already know of my BBC obsession. It is an obsession. Sometimes I watch more British TV than I do American, mostly because I enjoy British humor so much more. It’s dry and you have to think about it sometimes. American humor, at least on TV, tends to be a little juvenile and [...]

Recipe of the Day – White Chocolate Mints

Straight from Let’s Dish today is the recipe for Maggie’s White Chocolate Mints. Easier than they sound, I promise.
Ingredients:
1 bag white chocolate chips (or 1/2 package white almond bark)
Mint extract (peppermint or spearmint, depending on your taste)
Candy molds or mini-muffin cups
Melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler on the stove, or in the microwave [...]

Have it Your Way

Okay, so there have been a lot of reasons why I’ve been so indecisive lately, not the least of which is having a husband who has been home sick for the last two months. Still, I need to pick a writing project and stick with it. Or quit. There’s always that option.
Kidding. Kinda.
I started out [...]

We Have a Winner!

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! I have a lot to think about in naming my new hero. But for today, all I have to think about is annoucing the winner of my Name That Hero Contest.
The winner was randomly selected from all emails and comments (in other words, I wrote them down and had a [...]

Conference Envy

A lot of my friends are at RWA National in Washington, DC this week. I am pea green with envy! When I sold Let’s Dish a year ago, my first thought was, “I’m going to DC a published author.” Yeah, well, no. I’d decided a few months later that it didn’t make much sense to [...]

New Feature -Recipe of the Week

Since Let’s Dish revolves so much around food, a lot of folks have asked me about recipes from the book. So I have a confession to make: I don’t have any recipes. Honestly, I just made the stuff up. However, since I’ve had so many requests, my librarian and I have decided I need to [...]

Is There a Book in You?

It’s funny how the real life me and the writer me are colliding. Twice this weekend I was involved in conversations where writing came up. I’ve known these people for years, and neither is a writer, but somehow when I walk into a room nowadays, everyone feels compelled to tell me they’ve thought about writing [...]

Name That Hero, Win a Book!

One of the aspects of writing that I’ve always struggled with are names. I cannot name a hero or heroine to save my life, even with a small library of baby name books at my disposal. (We won’t talk about how long it took me to actually name my kids.) Titles are even worse, but [...]

More Fun on the World Wide Web!

As I said last post, busy week here. Firstly, be sure to visit me today over at Sizzling Hot Romance where I make a shocking confession about my first love. And on Wednesday the 8th, Let’s Dish is the featured book in Samhain’s Discover New Authors program. You can read the first half of the [...]