My mom was a huge sci fi fan so I grew up watching every sci fi show on including the original Battlestar Galactica so when the new version came on I started watching it. Then I grew bored and quit. Then my friend, who loved the show with a passion, ended up with the entire series on DVD twice (don’t ask) so she gave one set to me because it was important to her that I love it as much as she did. It didn’t happen. (I’m very into Stargate.) However, every couple of years I pull it out to see if my tastes have changed.

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Jerry Eland produced Touchstone’s early big albums and has been a friend and reliable pair of ears their entire career. He’s a well-known hitmaker. I had him envisioned as a Mutt Lang/Bob Rock type who overindulged to where he became known behind his back as Jerry the Hutt. Some of Jerry’s great girth is because I wanted to introduce a character who really did get taken advantage of for his expertize and name, and for absolutely no other reason. It’s not like he’s charming and good looking.

To be honest, Jerry really gelled as a character thanks to the episode of Monk “Mr. Monk and the Panic Room” wherein a music producer is killed inside a locked panic room where he was alone with his pet monkey. That episode starred Carmen Electra as the gold digging wife. Early in her career Carmen worked as booth bait at comic book conventions. I was booth bait before her and have it on good authority (from the guy who was running Marvel’s convention presence at the time) that they saw me attracting attention to the dinky black and white publisher (and also DC Comics as a matter of fact) I was hanging out with and decided they needed to hire some pretty girls for their booth too. So I got Carmen Electra her first break. She went on to fame and fortune and I never had to be married to Dennis Rodman.

This was off their first album and I saw them play it live. Which is a little embarrassing now, but I’m still impressed with the fact that they never gave up.

School is out and I have time to really dig into a big book. This is one of my all time favorite historical novels and the reason I tried and gave up writing historicals.

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Brett is sort of a composite of a guy I dated in college and the singer in a band I was friendly with. Toby was a tall, blond sweetheart of a guy. Visually he was a lot like Ryan Stiles of The Drew Carey Show, but completely unlike him in personality. Toby was sort of a doormat when I met him. He was dating a girl who was only dating him because she was trying to get back at her most recent ex and who, as soon as the ex crooked a finger at her, she went running back to him. The only reason I split up with Toby was because he moved to the other side of the country or I’d probably be married to him now. Toby is where Brett got his soft heart. And his height.

The other half of Brett is Dave, the lead singer and guitar player of the hottest band in the area at the time. Yeah, I know, he must have been some big deal, right? No. Not really. But they did manage to get a song on the radio. Of the four guys in the band he was the most down to earth and used to chat with me about Stephen King novels. (The bass player, on the other hand, thought he walked on water. I don’t even remember his name.) Dave was the first man to casually strip in front of me. We were talking about the latest Stephen King novel and he needed to change, so he did, while I was standing right there still trying to speak English and failing. That’s where Brett’s unflappable bluntness came from.

Creating Brett gave me a chance to revisit those guys without having to discover what really happened to them. I heard through the grapevine that Toby was trapped in a bad relationship with a leech, which wouldn’t surprise me, but in my mind he’s leaving for California all excited at the prospect of the big new job. And Dave is forever on stage performing his heart out wearing those 80’s tights and pursuing his dream. I think it’s better this way.

Remembering Home by J.M. Adele

Baby Come Back by Christa Maurice

The Other Side of Nowhere by J.N. Chaney

The Storm Inside by Alexis Anne

Mangled Hearts by Felicia Tatum

Dearborn by Jenni Moen

Lichgates by S.M. Boyce

I scored a copy of this book on a bargain table for a buck or I wouldn’t have read it. And having read it, I can say it was like rubbernecking at an accident. Several years ago, I was watching streaming of a music festival and there were clips from before the bands went onstage. The members of Def Leppard were talking to each other. The members of Buckcherry were hamming it up for the camera. One of the bands I watched did a little group cheer before they went on stage. The members of Motley Crue barely acknowledged each other. That was where the difference between Touchstone and SendDown was born. The guys in Touchstone were in it together from the beginning like family. The guys in SendDown were drinking buddies who became famous and had to tolerate each other. Then over the course of their series, they learned to like each other. Pretty sure the guys in Motley Crue still don’t like each other.

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Tessa Callisto is one of Jason Callisto’s sisters. She’s the one who went to college and them law school to become the band’s lawyer. Most of her job feels like running background checks on the women her brother and the other band members collect. That combined with the fact that she really enjoyed their early party days has made her a little, okay, a lot cynical. She’s sick of being a bridesmaid, but she can’t trust any man enough to be his bride and with everyone around her getting married, she’s starting to feel left behind.

Brett is a well known party monster, but when he meets Tessa, he recognizes that she’s everything he’s been looking for. He doesn’t need any other women if he has her. Now he has to convince her.

Once & Again

book 2

She was once his secret desire… Will she be again?

Father Aiden, an ex-marine and new priest, falls in love with Maylynn, but he struggles to stay away from her. He’s successful for many years, though he can’t keep her out of his dreams.

Then one day she shows up for a pre-marital counselling session with her fiancé, Davis. Aiden soon realizes Davis isn’t who he says he is, but what does that mean for Maylynn, and for himself?

Will be released August 4, 2016 from Inkspell Publishing.

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Once, book one

Will be released July 2, 2016 from Inkspell Publishing.

Her first and also her once.

Jonathan and Rebecca’s paths cross at exactly the right moment, when each most needs to hear what the other has to say.

But Jonathan is three days from entering the priesthood, and Rebecca leaves him to his peace. But he is unable to find peace.

Without each other’s comfort and strength, they must each struggle to forge a new path, with only memories of the one day that changed everything.

But are they able to forget and let go?

Once & Forever, book three

Will be released December 2016 from Inkspell Publishing.

Eden, a nun, is constantly struggling against her dark past of living on the streets, and her attraction to Trace, an ex-convict farm worker. After a twelve-year separation, Eden is finally reunited with her brother, Thomas, but why hadn’t she reached out to him in all those years? As Eden and Trace grow closer, confessing their pasts to each other, will they be able to resist getting too close?

Excerpt:

“You’re studying to be a priest?”

He made himself meet her eyes. “I am a priest.”

She let go of his hand and stepped back.

Her smiled was tight. “I’m glad you found your path.”

Quiet.

He couldn’t quite read her expression. The distance between them felt like a gorge chiseled into the earth.

“Are you all right, Maylynn?” he asked.

“I’m really happy for you.” Then she added, “Father Aiden.”

For some reason, her words stabbed him in the gut. He usually liked when people used his title—it seemed to imply a certain amount of trust.

“I’m sorry, Maylynn.” He wasn’t entirely sure why he was apologizing. He just didn’t like to see her uncomfortable.

“I’m happy for you,” she repeated.

Then he realized what the problem was. He hadn’t anticipated this.

He moved closer. “I’m so sorry.”

Her forced smile finally dropped. “Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”

“It didn’t occur to me…”

“That I might be attracted to you?”

“Yes.”

“Why aren’t you wearing your collar?” Anger prickled the edge of her voice.

“My mother’s last wish was that I find my father. I’ve been following her notes. She was convinced he was somewhere in this area.”

“Wait… Your mother’s name was Adalina?”

He nodded. With the number of times the shelter was mentioned in the notes, he figured his mother and Maylynn had met.

A pause.

Anger flashed in her eyes. “You still should’ve told me.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Why’d you play with me like that?”

“I swear that wasn’t my intent.”

“You knew damn well what was going on. Was it a game—see if you still had it? If you could still get the chicks?”

Under the anger in her eyes, he saw the hurt. He swore he could feel it exactly, as if it was his own.

He shifted even closer, just in front of her. “I’m sorry,” he said again. His voice lowered, quieted. “I didn’t see what you were feeling because I was fighting so hard myself. I still am.”

“Fighting what?”

“What I felt the first time I saw you, what I’m still feeling.”

She waited, glaring at him.

“I’m attracted to you,” he said. “Intensely.”