My Muse's Musings

 Hot SEAL, Open Arms is released. And I'm so thrilled to have it out.    I've set this book in Texas and I really enjoyed writing it. I love writing about different locations and giving my characters different careers. I love the challenge of writing the circumstances that they'll face in their daily lives and spicing things up by throwing roadblocks in their way in their work and their personal relationships.  Amazon / Apple / B & N / Kobo / Smashwords  Navy SEAL Wyatt Taylor is facing the hardest decision of his life—what the hell to do now he can no longer be a SEAL. Besides his bum arm, he also has a bad attitude, because in his opinion nothing he’ll ever do again will live up to his life as a SEAL. But now his savings are dwindling and his team has deployed without him, he knows he has to move on.  Kinley Green is living her dream.  She’s worked with horses for years, training them, caring for them, and riding them. And now with a gr...

I love to write, but I also love to read. Most writers do. The more you read, the more it feeds your writing skills because you absorb things from everything you read.  With some books, you may garner small facts. With others, like Sol Stein's book Other People , it can hit you with the weight of an epiphany about style or voice.  I read everything. from Stephen King's horror novels, though he writes much more than horror (check out his short stories) to Janet Oake's inspirationals. From Kallypso Masters BDSM novels to J. D. Robb's in Death Series.  From Robyn Peterman's hysterically funny paranormal romances to Michael Connelly's hard-boiled Harry Bosche detective series.  I love books, I love good writing and I love stories that will take me to a different place, a different world, a different time period.  Abigail Keam is a friend who writes Cozy mysteries. I think I've read most of her Josiah Reynold's series. Josiah is an edgy Jessica Fletcher. She...