Healing Together is a poem that helped in the development of my 12th novel, Paint Splattered Teardrops, which will be published this coming winter. I saw you from across the roomIn a tavern, but it wasn’t just us twoI was there for a partyYou were pouring some Bacardi I thought I’d never see you againButContinue reading “Healing Together, a poem”
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Just Another Day, a poem
Just Another Day You hugged herThen later said,It’s just another day You came to see her!She didn’t even ask, but before you left,“I’ll have to block you, you know?” You picked her upAnd held her closeBut it was just another day, to you “I can’t believe how much I like looking at you.”Words from yourContinue reading “Just Another Day, a poem”
𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙨
My next romance and 12th novel is 𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙨 𝙽𝚘𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝. The Tillmans have tried to mend theirs after a tragic accident led to the passing of their only child, but it seems they may end up calling it quits after all. For Landry Tillman, being intimate with hisContinue reading “𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙨”
Snowed in Sneak
This is Sully Welch, Tape Two You take the lives of pretty girls who just so happen to be identical twins and now the media is referring to you as the Twin Slayer. You guys could have come up with a better name. I mean I do murder people in violent ways, so I guessContinue reading “Snowed in Sneak”
Sneak Peek at Forever Twenty-Nine
PrologueShe will forever be twenty-nine. Dead. The girl was dead. The fetus that was being housed inside her beautiful body. Dead. A woman who will never see thirty. A woman who will never hear her baby cry for the first time. All that ripped from her in a moment. It might have been a bitContinue reading “Sneak Peek at Forever Twenty-Nine”
Romance Week! Tuesday!
Originally posted on Tales From The Book Dragon:
5 Flames Hello, my Fellow Book Dragons! Tonight’s Gem is quite different, pick it up and it looks like an old fashioned pop bottle cap, but close your claws and let a bit of warmth come on it and open your palm and it transforms to a…
The idea behind Why It’s Called a Goodbye
One day, June 7th 2020 to be exact, I was driving around and a song came on titled I Hope You’re Happy Now. The lyrics that stood out to me were, “I don’t know why it’s called a goodbye.” I thought that maybe I could write a book about why it IS a GOODbye. Then IContinue reading “The idea behind Why It’s Called a Goodbye”
The idea Behind Thirty, Flirty, and DUMB
Where to begin? The idea for this story came many years ago, when I myself, decided I didn’t want to give away what I felt were going to be the best years of my life. Fast forward to January 2020. I was getting ready for bed one evening. My brain very rarely ever shuts up,Continue reading “The idea Behind Thirty, Flirty, and DUMB”
lil_qt_wit_a_booty
Teenage emails. What was your first email address? Mine was lil_qt_wit_a_booty And the internet was newish, and I was up in chat rooms talking to boys, who I hope were boys. But honestly, they could have been creepy old men. I’ll never know. My friends and I did call some boys once who said theyContinue reading “lil_qt_wit_a_booty”
Kicked off the Cheerleading Squad
So, one time. A long time ago. When I was in the eighth grade, I was kicked off the cheerleading squad. I know, I know. Me—kicked off the cheerleading squad. You might ask how this happened? Well, we (as in the entire seventh and eighth grade basketball team/cheerleaders, plus coaches) were on our way backContinue reading “Kicked off the Cheerleading Squad”
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