Category: Contemporary Romance

Downton Abbey — is Civility the Real Draw?

Ahhh – Downton Abbey is back and my weeks crescendo from Sunday night to Sunday night. Don’t we all love their world? Doesn’t it seem so much simpler than our own daily rounds? But to them, I’

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Fictional Manor House Rosemont Inspires Little Free Library

We’ve done it! Or, I should say, my husband’s done it! Built an incredible Little Free Library inspired by Rosemont. I casually mentioned the idea to him one night when we were getting ready for b

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Meet the Fabulous Five!

MEET THE FABULOUS FIVE! INTRODUCING five of the Bestsellers BookBub singled out as Women’s Fiction that works! Here is the story of the Gold family, an institution in the small Connecticut town of O

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I’ve been Tagged in a Blog Hop!!

Rita Ackerman, a writer and historical research specialist that I met when I was speaking at the Arizona Author Showcase at the Desert Foothills Library, tagged me in a Blog Hop. Fun idea – writers

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Time for a Sequel to the 1998 film You’ve Got Mail?

Did you find ‘The Shop Around the Corner’—the independent bookstore in the 1998 film You’ve Got Mail—every bit charming as its on-screen owner, played by Meg Ryan? I sure did! And I hated To

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