As the years go by, I find I’m drawn to second-chance romance and later-in-life tropes. ( “A trope speaks to a ‘type’ of story that reader...

Where should we go on vacation? In 2016, my husband and I decided on Montana. Internet research revealed The Covered Wagon Ranch in Gallati...

  Several years ago, I wrote a short Christmas novella called   Hank . This guy was a recurring character in my   Dawsons of Montana   serie...

Before writing The Dawsons of Montana , I surfed the Internet for the setting and found a dude ranch in Southwestern Montana near Yellowston...

First lines are important – they make you want to keep reading When I took an online class about writing conflict in novels, we were instruc...