13. Your commute to and from work/school/etc. I have an extremely short commute: 2 miles, door to door. I could easily walk it, except I’m often carrying papers, books, etc. Plus it gets hot here and I’d rather not arrive at work all sweaty. So I do my walk after I drive home. Sometimes I …
12. Two words/phrases that make you laugh Speed humps. These go a by a variety of names. I grew up calling them “speed bumps.” Around here, though, the signs all say “speed hump,” which always makes me laugh. Because, apparently, I am 12. “Thank you for your patience.” This one happens when you’ve been on …
11. Your current relationship; if single, discuss that too I’m afraid my response to this is really boring. I met my husband in high school. I was 15 and he was about to turn 17. I’d asked another boy to the Sadie Hawkins dance but he’d already said yes to someone else. But my cousin …
10. A fruit you dislike and why I’m going to cheat a little because I can’t think of any fruit I dislike. Sure, I favor some–cherries, blueberries, pineapple–but don’t hate any. Well, I don’t like plain raw mango. But I do love mango in anything, so that doesn’t count. Let’s talk tomatoes instead. A my …
9. Your feelings on ageism My feelings on this mirror my feelings on any other kind of prejudice. Nobody should be judged because of the category they fall into. I have friends in their 70s who do more before breakfast than most young people do all day. I know people in their teens and twenties …
Well, I mean, you can refuse. But why would you want to? Dreamspinner is celebrating their 9th anniversary. To celebrate, this week they’re discounting all books by authors who first published in years 4 and 5. That’s me. So this week only, my entire Dreamspinner catalog is 35% off. Go! Stock up on the ones …
8. A book you love and one you don’t Oh boy. I love a lot of books. I guess I’ll choose one of my all-time favorites, The Book Thief. I read it in less than two days. I was in the final chapters when my husband and kids came home from somewhere. “Leave me alone!” …
7. What tattoos you have and if they have meaning I have three. My first is on the side of my right shin. It’s a scale of justice atop a book. The scale is shaped like the Greek letter psi. This is my academic tat, symbolic of my law and psychology degrees, as well as …
6. Someone who fascinates you and why This one is really hard for me. I have a PhD in psychology plus I’m an author, both of which are evidence that I find human beings in general fascinating. All of them. Each person has his or her own story. One of my favorite pastimes is people …
I’m very excited to be able to reveal the cover of my upcoming novel, Love Can’t Conquer! That beautiful cover is by Brooke Albrecht. This book releases June 3, but you can preorder now from Dreamspinner Press. I’m planning for this to be the first in a series. And in June I’ll have a blog …