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 …
5. A place you would live, but have never visited. Ooh, this is a tough one! I’ve visited a lot of places and would happily live in almost all of them, at least for a while. In the US, I’m going to say New Orleans. I’ve always wanted to go there but somehow never have. …
4. Ten interesting facts about yourself I’m not sure how interesting these are, but here goes: My day job is criminal justice professor. When I was in college, I took 3 years of Russian and 1 of Latin. I’m now the shortest person in my household. In my youth, my jobs included fast food, taking …
3. Your first love and first kiss; if separate, discuss both. First kiss first. I was in 6th grade and I went to see Star Wars with a boy. So it was my first date too. At the end of the movie–before our moms came to pick us up–we had a quick kiss on the …
2. Your earliest memory. I was two. At the time, we lived in Illinois, but we were visiting my grandparents in Oregon. I remember standing at the counter next to my grandmother–I must have been standing on a chair–and helping her decorate a cake. I also remember when my grandparents’ friends came over for a …