Our topic this week at the SFF Seven is Cover Artist Praise. Come on over to hear about mine!
RITA ® Award-Winning Author of Fantasy Romance
Our topic this week at the SFF Seven is Cover Artist Praise. Come on over to hear about mine!
Mary Robinette Kowal and John Scalzi from their talk the other night.

Not all desires are shiny and sweet—and the dark ones might change you forever…
It’s not the kind of obsession a tough Army guy can admit to—a jones for Ava, the pretty-princess pop star. Not just her body, the perfect product that sells all those magazines. Her music.
The critics call her human lip gloss, all style and no substance. To Joe Ivanchan, Ava is the exact blend of reality and fantasy that he can tolerate, the closest he’s willing to get to giving his heart after the injury and breakdown that got him out of the service.
But Ava is real. She’s a flesh and blood woman with a publicity machine and an album deadline, along with a whole team of handlers paid to shellac a pristine sheen over a damaged, desperate soul. A woman with fears, with secrets, with desires.
When Joe finds himself in an interview to join her security team as her driver, his instinct is to get away. But the woman behind Ava’s carefully focus-grouped image is even harder to walk away from. The angry needs tormenting her speak to something within Joe. Something empathetic, protective—and primal…
Besides, even a falling star can light up the darkest night.

With the rains, the desert four o’clocks have been blooming, too.

The snapdragons are hitting full, late-summer riotous bloom.

I’m just back from #WorldCon76, which was a whirlwind of great stuff. I caught a moment of downtime at the lovely Fairmont pool, including a much-needed nap.
This week at the SFF Seven, we’re asking “What are you most proud about with regards to your writing?” Come on over to read about mine.


The Black Knight butterfly bush – my view as I exit from the passage of doom to the secret garden.

This is my attempt to get a photo of the fairy ring of cholla the pack rat deposits around my table in the grape arbor. You might have to zoom in.

Kitty bookends for breakfast!
Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is Deadline mania. How to keep the deadlines in times of trouble. I say it takes knowing the difference between Big Trouble and Daily Shit. Come on over to find out how to tell them apart.