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Rambling About: The Third Lap

Most Wednesday nights, our running group meets at the high school track for #WorkoutWednesday. I haven’t consistently worked out on the track in years and I just love stepping onto the spongy all-weather track and the scent of sun-baked rubber floating in the air. (Did you know synthetic rubber tracks are also called tartan tracks? Gotta love the pseudo reference to Scotland!!) It brings back fond memories of killer track workouts at Villanova. Sometimes I swear our coach was trying to kill us.

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Writing Teen Romance

Location, Location, Location

I belong to a few different chapters of the Romance Writer's of America. My novel, FORBIDDEN SECRETS, is a young adult romance with a paranormal twist on Scottish history, so in addition to belonging to the Young Adult Chapter of RWA, I also belong to the Fantasy, Futuristic & Paranormal Chapter of RWA. Today I'm guest blogging over at FF&P about the importance of an author's writing space and how a change of scenery can benefit your writing. Please drop by and say hi.

Writing Teen Romance

This thing is giving me fits

The thing I’m referring to is my latest manuscript. (Yes it’s a teen romance – because that’s all I write.) I’ve been so excited about working on it, but the sizzle is staring to fizzle. It’s like a puzzle. I know I have all the parts, but this puzzle has more than one way to solve the darned thing. I’ve outlined the story. All the plot points are working together so the story makes sense. But with quite a few chapters written, I’ve found a scene where the heroine (Callie) has a heart-to-heart

Running

A Different Kind of Debut

Well, it’s offiicial. This former half-miler who never ran over a six-mile long run in college or an eight-miler post-collegiately is running a half-marathon. The Rock ‘n’ Roll Savannah Half to be exact. Can you believe it? Neither can I. Especially given the fact that just over three months ago, I could barely run one-mile due to a hamstring injury that kept me sidelined for close to two-months. Finally in August I could run two – three miles a few times a week without too much pain. I still

Things I Love

First Date Friday: Chocolate in the Garden

I’m going to let you in on a secret. Well, it’s actually not really a secret because if you check my bio (and practically any author of the female persuasion it would seem) you’ll see that I love all things made of chocolaty goodness. Let’s face it – most females like chocolate. Right girls?! Chocolate is like a food group for authors. Have any of you heard about how rough being a writer actually is? We N-E-E-D chocolate. Almost like we need air. You would too if you spent countless hours

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I Want Crazy

Hunter Hayes’ video for I Want Crazy is what I try to capture in the young adult novels that I write. That whirlwind kind of love that consumes you so the other person is all you can think about. It also makes you do crazy things, like sneak into the public pool, or sneak up on a rooftop or catch a plane on a moments notice to be with the one you love because you can’t stand being apart. Yeah – that’s what I write about. That got me to thinking about the craziest thing I did as a teen. I’ll

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Teen Book Review–Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

I’m going to make two confessions. First, I have a thing for audiobooks. I can listen while I’m driving, which is a good and bad thing. Bad only that I still have to pay attention to the driving and sometimes books are very engrossing. Second, my TBL (To Be Listened) stash is ridiculous, so it takes me awhile to get to some of the books. Hence the reason I just finished the young adult novel, Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor and read by Khristine Hvam. Sadly two years after the book was

Writing Teen Romance

What I Learned at RWA – The PRO Retreat

Pardon the delay in this post…my favorite saying of late is: Life Happens. I won’t bore you with the details other than to say, I’m deep in edits for one of my young adult manuscripts. My day job is insanely busy – so much so that I’m working well over 10 hour days, which leaves me very little time to spend with my family, let alone write a witty blog post. So I’m sorry. But let me try to make it up to you by giving you the scoop on the PRO Retreat at RWA.. For all you non RWA members out there,

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What I learned this year at RWA–Day One

Every summer, RWA - Romance Writer’s of America - has a huge conference. This year, the conference was held here in Atlanta and that’s where I spent a good portion of last week. It was tons of fun getting to meet up with writer friends from my chapters like the Young Adult Romance Writers (YARWA) or Celtic Hearts; and very nice to make tons of new acquaintances. Aside from making friends, I also learned a lot. Such as: If you want to workout while you’re away – it’s best to pack your running