Happy Friday the 13th!

No matter what the date, it’s Friday, and that’s always a good thing. And tomorrow is Valentine’s Day! We received this adorable Valentine’s Day card in the mail today. Gotta love that lipstick! Tomorrow we will deliver her yummy Valentine’s Day gift to her, as well as gifts to the other grandkids. They make all holidays so much fun!


I know it’s a few months away, but I received the back cover blurb for Norma Rose’s story and wanted to share it with you…

The Bootlegger’s Daughter (Daughter’s of the Roaring Twenties)

Of all the speakeasies, in all the world…

Mysterious city slicker Ty Bradshaw might have won her father's trust, but everyone knows Norma Rose is the true boss of Nightingale's resort. And it'll take more than that charming smile to shake the feeling that Ty is not all he seems…

He walks into hers.

Ty is a federal agent on a personal mission of revenge. But he hasn't figured on falling for a bootlegger's daughter. Suddenly, flirting with headstrong Norma Rose seems far more exhilarating than chasing gangsters!

The book won't be released until August, but it is already up on Amazon, and available for pre-orders. I sincerely hope readers have as much fun reading this series as I did writing it!

On to other books…My WIP is once again making good progress, which feels wonderful. And my short story for a Spring Wedding Anthology that will be released in 2016 has been outlined—I worked on that while my WIP was simmering a bit this week. I was at a cross-road that needed to be fleshed out a bit.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, including a special Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

A special little holiday for sure.

However, I do believe love should be celebrated every day.  

A hug, a kiss, a card, a flower, any of it goes a long way every day of the year. 

Enjoy your day, and carry it with you tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after…

Oh, oh!

We had a fun weekend. The grandgirls were over, had out of town company one night, and though hubby was one of the millions who viewed the Super Bowl, I must admit I didn’t. I did see the highlights, and of course the re-plays of some of the commercials. The Doritos’s Dog and the lost cat poster…that got my vote. Simple but creative. 

This winter sure is flying past. Perhaps because the weather has been so gorgeous. I can’t remember a year this warm and sunny. I’m not complaining by any means! With February upon us, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Remember those boxes we used to make for school? All covered with tissue paper with construction paper hearts. So precious. I remember getting a valentine from a ‘secret admirer’ one year. I think I was in fifth or sixth grade and it turned out to be a boy in another class that I didn’t even know. I also had flowers delivered to me one time when I was teaching from a ‘secret admirer’. In the long run, it turned out they were kind of from hubby—in a very roundabout way. He’d aided a woman broke down alongside the road and wouldn’t accept a payment from her. She discovered he was my husband and sent me flowers as a thank you. The story is much longer than that, and there are several steps of seven in there, including out of state people, and proved how this person knows that person and that person knows this person…

I must get back to my latest WIP. It’s flowing well and I don’t want to lose the momentum. 

Enjoy the day. Smile at yourself. It’s good to be you!