...Romance Author...

Welcome...

In the last four years, I've gone from querying agents, publishing my first book (Whispers in Time) through a rinky-dink indepedent publisher, who ultimately crashed and burned, to publishing my first and second novels myself.

Now I've finished my third romance novel, Kissing Mr. Bellamy, and I'm ready to move on. I've come full circle, it seems, back to researching literary agents, and studying the art of writing a great query letter.

So...did I screw up by self-publishing?

I've heard varying opinions on the subject. Some say since self-publishing has become more and more popular, it no longer carries the stigma it once did in the past. Others are convinced that if you're serious about going the traditional route (by way of a literary agent), that you shouldn't mention your status as a self-published author - at least not in the initial query letter.

Either way, I take my writing seriously, and aspire to some day join the ranks of traditionally published authors.

What book am I working on now?

Well...right now , I'm working on a 3-book Paranormal / Shape-shifter Romance series, Legend of the Pantera, which takes place in America's Post Civil War time period.

Spanning from Texas to Louisiana, the first book, Twelfth Moon, is about Cadence, the oldest of three sisters who, because of a spell cast generations ago by their gypsy ancenstors, are able to transform into panthers.

U.S. Marshall, Jonah Kincaid, has been trailing Cadence for the murder of his brother, and arrives at the scene of a lynching - Cadence's. Ironically, she's about to be hanged for a murder she didn't commit.

Except that Jonah thinks he's been tracking a young boy.

And Cadence has this itsy-bitsy little problem: The women in her family go through a phase once a year, during the full moon, and are compelled to "mate," so it gets pretty steamy when she's saved - and then captured - by the ruggedly handsome U.S. Marshall.

Also in the story, there's an Apache tribe that is from the spirit world - it actually exists - who are trapped in this world, and need the help of Cadence's sister, Jaelene.

 

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