To Sell Or Not To Sell (Tara Taylor Quinn)

Alpha Versus Beta Heroes (Patricia Potter)
I love writing Alpha heroes, but once in a while a Beta hero sneaks into my heart, and my affection for him is no less. In my last suspense I had one of each. It was a two couple book which is always a challenge. You don’t want one couple to overshadow the other. But in the “Behind The Shadows,” I put the bad boy Alpha hero with the good heroine and the Beta hero with the not-so-good heroine. It made for interesting dynamics and it seemed to work. (One side benefit: when you have two couples, if you get stuck on one scene, you can quickly go to other characters and then you come back the problem is usually solved).The Beta hero is a cop. An honest g

The Cottage Clan (Lynn Kerstan)
A bit of ancient history. In October a year ago, Alicia and I were to spend a week in a two-bedroom cottage at the foot of Glastonbury Tor in southwest England. Then lymphoma came calling. I spent most of October in the hospital while Alicia, with a non-refundable airline ticket and cottage rental, managed to entertain herself without me. Deathly sick, I couldn’t imagine that a year later, we’d be happily ensconced at Arrow Cottage

Maggie's Halloween Magick!
These are the Jack-O-Lanterns my man and I carved for Halloween. We didn't get to them until the night before--All Hallows' Eve, Eve, I guess you would call it, right? But we had a blast and it was fun. Mine is on the right. It's a face with flaming eyes and mouth. And the fact that I had to tell you what it is says a lot

If You're Clear About Confusion...(Tara Taylor Quinn)
If you're really good at being bad, are you bad or are you good?That about sums up my week. Not because I'm being bad. Of course I'm not. But because it seems to me that everything can be seen this way or that. Here can mean there depending upon where you're standing. Are you confused yet? Yeah, me, too.Tim and I have been having been mulling deeply this week. I think he'd make a great president. His views are well thought out, intricate, to the point, and original enough to make a difference. Unfortunately for the country, he doesn't have a lot of political backing.We talk and talk. We come to great understandings. We see ways to fix the problems in our

What’s Bugging You? (Suzanne Forster)
The local news guy asked this question of viewers the other day—and I was very pleasantly surprised when I couldn’t immediately come up with an answer. On a normal week, I would have two or three pet peeves waiting in the wings, but on that particular day, I had nothing. Hallelujah, huh? It was a Southwest Airlines commercial that brought me back to reality. They were guaranteeing that they wouldn’t