Today is a special day for me. Think About Love is now available as a Kindle book on Amazon! This one is special for a couple of reasons. Think About Love was the first of my books to be reviewed by Publisher’s Weekly. My editor at Kensington sent me the review before I saw a copy [...]
I’ve been busy this week getting some of my titles up on All Romance Ebooks, and I’ll be putting more up over the next few weeks. Visit All Romance eBooks and search for Vanessa Grant. For great romances, and people who own – or have owned – more than one format of ereader, All Romance [...]
She needed his help to find her son – no matter what the cost! Surgeon Emma Garrett had made sacrifices to follow her dream of becoming a doctor – and yet none was as painful as turning down Gray McKenzie. But not even the threat of losing her greatest love could stop Emma from fulfilling [...]
This afternoon I followed an EC Sheedy tweet to Leo Babauta’s blog about an effortless life. I’m sceptical of effortless, but I could handle easier, and when EC posts words of wisdom I generally check it out because she’s – well, wise. I was entranced by Babauta’s blog, and impressed by the power of synchronicity. Last week I [...]
This blog first appeared at PenWarriors.com The novel I’m now working on – Truth to Tell (TTT) – has surpassed all my other books by having the longest gestation period on record. I conceived of the idea over two years ago when I wrote a couple of scenes, then stalled and put it aside to [...]
Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read Telling Lies for Fun and Profit in the early 1980s, a couple of years after I’d decided to put aside my attempts to write a publishable fiction novel for a while.I knew I [...]
Yesterday I received the almost-ready-to-publish-as-an-ebook file of If You Loved Me, a novel of mine originally published by Zebra Bouquet (Kensington Books). I love this story and I’m so pumped to know it will soon be available once again! Originally I wrote it for Mills and Boon Harlequin, but my editor there wanted me to [...]
(Also posted at PenWarriors.com) If fictional characters had to pay real dollars for therapy, a few of mine would be bankrupt and suffering from multiple identity disorder. Even I’m confused about the identity of the hero of my seventh published book. Andrew, Takeover Man‘s hero, stormed into town to reorganize his aging father’s life and [...]
EC Sheedy’s blog postings always make me think, and her latest Penwarriors.com posting is no exception EC’s “THE SIDE EFFECTS OF WRITING” got me thinking once again about the universe of publishing, writing, and the tangle of “empowerment + uncertainty” that the explosion of indie publishing has brought to modern writers. I replied to EC’s post [...]
Last week, sitting in Oxford University’s atmospheric Bodleian Library, Dr. Diana Bishop and I brushed fingers over an ancient manuscript … and slipped into the compelling enchantment of Deborah Harkness’s “A Discovery of Witches.” Harkness drew me more deeply under her spell as she threw each new challenge at her compelling heroine, Diana, a witch [...]
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