The Roses of Prose

I want to say up front, I'm a HUGE fan of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books--her explosion-prone every-girl heroine, hunky hero...

My last couple of posts have been about writing and publishing. I want to take up one more topic, one which can scare a writer more than any...

If you read my post last month, you'll recall I shared the results of an experiment in which I ran a Facebook ad and an Amazon sponsored...

Like most authors, I've done a few book signings over the years. When my first book--a Western historical romance--was released in 2010,...

If you self-publish, or even if you don't, you've probably heard the moaning and wailing that Amazon's subscription service Kind...

In the movie Rebel Without a Cause , James Dean played the quintessential, disaffected, bad boy anti-hero. This worked for a lot of women, ...

What’s your family like? Do you ever feel like you live in a cuckoo’s nest, or that you’ve escaped from one? If you’re honest, the answer i...

I know writers who rub their hands together in glee cooking up new and increasingly diabolical ways to challenge (i.e. torture) their charac...

This month we’re talking about love and hate at The Roses of Prose. Love is easy, but I’ve always shied away from writing about hate. It’s ...

A few months ago, I thought I knew what I would write in 2014. I planned to write the Christmas novella I didn’t quite get to last year, an...

This month we're talking about what scares us most. What about our characters? What scares them most, and how do we deal with it in our ...

I'm not a grandmother yet, but I can hardly wait. I love seeing my friends' photos of their beautiful grandchildren. Someday, God wi...

It's been many years since September meant back-to-school at our house, but this year was different. I'm the one who's been imme...