Love is worth the risk
Highlighting Historical Romance with Sandra Schwab This summer I re-released my Gothic romance (well, at least it was intended to be a Gothic romance) Castle of the Wolf, in which my English heroine unexpectedly inherits a mysterious castle in the Black Forest, but, alas, finds it inhabited by the grumpiest man imaginable (but he’s kind […]
National Novel Writing Month is begins tomorrow and I’m ready. My work in progress has to be finished this month. It has been promised and I will deliver. I can do this, right? But with a patio project engulfing the house, grandma duties looming, and a husband who’s a tad distracted (see patio project), something […]
I spent yesterday with over two hundred of my closest (Facebook) friends celebrating the release of The Renegade Wife. It was super fun. I discovered: That people really like characters that interconnect in multiple books, which is good news for me because all of mine do that. That people like children in books as long […]
I’ve had an amazing few days! What have I won? Notably Dangerous Secrets won the 2016 RONE Award for Best Post-Medieval Historical Romance. InD’Tale Magazine presented the award at their InD’Scribe conference which leads me to other things I’ve won: new friends, new ideas, new appreciation for my craft, and some insights about my self. One […]
I’m running around like a headless chicken to get ready to go to a conference, my first this year. I decided to go to InD’Scribe in Burbank because I’m a finalist for the RONE Award. Who knows? I could win and it would be nice to be there. You can see the add on the […]
Ours is a strange and wonderful relationship. I create stories out of my imagination, and, if I do my job well, they create images in yours. That’s the primary flow of communications. I’m thrilled to death, not to mention humbled and grateful, to have readers at all. Sometimes, though I wonder about some things. Where […]
Who reads my books, really? I’d like some demographic data. What is the best way to reach people who might like them? Sometimes I feel like I’m announcing in an echo chamber, or just talking with the same small group of people. What was it actually like to be a woman in 1835? I can […]
Thank goodness it’s Monday! I know Monday is the least loved day of the week, but why not? For starters today is my first day back to normal in three weeks, and it always feels good to get back to something resembling an organized life. I actually took two days last week to review all […]
Travel broadens. It always does. On the road in Ottawa, I’ve been sopping up information about Canadian government and history like a sponge. I had a lot of gaps to fill. I came in great part to see the places I had already researched while writing The Renegade Wife. The Rideau canal locks are every […]
That’s always a slippery question, especially when I’m on the road. The answer is complicated. As I type this, I’m at the Old Sturbridge Inn in Sturbridge Massachusetts—fairly plush digs and nice folks. I highly recommend it. But were am I? I’m off on a road trip. Later this week I plan to head north […]