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Title: Dakota’s Bride Authors: Christine Young Genres: Historical, Romance Available: Feb 18, 2010Online Link: http://www.nightowlreviews.com/nightowlromance/reviews/Review.aspx?daoid=5969Score: 4.25 / 5 Review: Emma St. John is on the run from a very dangerous and evil man, her stepfather. Upon her mother’s mysterious death after a long illness, Emma overhears her stepfather discussing how he systematically poisoned her mother until she died. After hearing this devastating news, as well […]

Sunshine Award Paty Jager gave my blog a Sunshine Award. Thanks Paty! According to the guidelines, now that I picked your blog you need to: Put the logo on your blog in a post. Pass the award onto 12 bloggers. Link the nominees within this post. Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blogs. Share the love and link […]

Scene writing 101: Even if you are a panster, like me, plotting each scene is way too important to forego. I go through many steps when I decide what will happen in my scenes. First: I make sure I know whose POV I’m in. Second: I write the first sentence and try to write the last sentence. Knowing how the scene will end and making […]

Dakota’s Bride, I’m celebrating the rerelease of Dakota’s Bride. Twelve years ago in December, Dakota’s Bride was released by Kensington. It was my first published book and I had the great honor of Kate Duffy editing my book. Kate was a legend in the field of publishing. She passed away this last fall and the writing world mourned her loss. She was great fun and […]

Trends in Romance, Mind boggling doesn’t come close to trying to figure out the trends in romance writing created single-handedly by the big publishing houses. When I first began to read romance, my favorite historicals were centered around the War Between the States. Suddenly this was taboo. The houses were not accepting these stories. “Write something else they would say.” Then as an after thought […]

January 20th, high school swimming is over for the year. And what a rewarding year. The girls team did a great job! I am so proud of them. As a team we finished 4th. My wonderful year round swimmer finished her high school career with an unprecedented 8 state championships swims. Our relays finished 3rd and 4th. I am so proud of them. Last night […]

Book signing was a success. On Valentines Day the Angels had their first booksigning at the humane society, donating a dollar a book. We had a lot of fun with friends, family and new friends. Libby, a black lab, drew names for the door prizes. We will be planning our next signing for the year 2011 on St. Patty’s day. The Angels: Allana, Cinnamon, Sable […]

District swim meet. Prelims at districts were awesome. Cascade girls and boys swam great. Lots of personal records. The girls are hoping to win the meet tomorrow. If they do, I’ll get wet. Wouldn’t have it any other way though. I’m keeping my fingers crossed they will all swim as well tomorrow as they did today. After tomorrow we are all looking forward to State. […]