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Happy April to all writers! Head on over to Alex Cavanaugh's  blog  to join us for the Insecure Writers Support Group. After the publication of my 7th novel in October of 2016, I took a writing break to focus on my day job and other fun activities. But in March I jumped back into writing a romantic suspense I started in 2009: Twin Sacrifice . Has a dream ever inspired your writing? As I mourned the end of my favorite TV show, Prison Break , in 2009, I had a dream about an alternate ending to the show. That dream inspired the plot of Twin Sacrifice . Now I'm no longer in mourning, since  Prison Break returns for a 5th season on April 4, yahooooo! Wentworth Miller *swoons* April IWSG Day Question: Have you taken advantage of the annual A to Z Challenge in terms of marketing, networking, publicity for your book? What were the results? I did A to Z once (maybe 2012?) and it was fun but exhausting. Blogging was a more active world back then, and I post ...

Lots of giveaways and news to share from Jennifer Lane Books! I'm pairing with USB Memory Direct  to offer a giveaway of three flash drives loaded with a Jennifer Lane ebook of your choice. Enter on the Rafflecopter . a Rafflecopter giveaway Also,  SPIKED (Blocked #3) is part of the Love Kissed Books KU Challenge. We struggle to like each other in this heated political climate, and the NA Sports Romance Blocked series is about finding love despite our differences. Love across the aisle! Have you participated in the Kindle Unlimited Challenge ? You can win a Kindle and Amazon gift cards by reading awesome books. Finally, are you a Prison Break fan? I'm a HUGE fanatic and writing fan fiction for the show is what started my crazy author adventure. I'm so psyched for the show's return this April! If you haven't seen it, check out season one on Netflix. Prison Break inspired my debut novel WITH GOOD BEHAVIOR , which will be re-released soon after a fresh, n...

Welcome to the Insecure Writers Support Group, August edition. Alex Cavanaugh leads the band of fledgling, fun writers. Join us HERE . And now for the two-part IWSG question of the month! What was your very first piece of writing as an aspiring writer? I never anticipated becoming a writer. But when my psychologist career took a downturn in 2007, I got hooked on the TV show Prison Break . The dark themes and conspiracy theories of the show echoed my own gloom at the time, I guess. I stumbled across a section on the Fox discussion board: Fan Fiction . "What's this?" I thought. I read some stories and shook my head. "What LOSERS are writing stories about TV characters?" Fast forward a couple of months and I started writing my own fan fiction! The first piece was laughable in its inept writing. I was lucky for kind TV fans who encouraged me. I decided to write a Prison Break story about what I knew: swimming. My writing style was bloated, but some read...

Hard Time by Cara McKenna My rating: 4 of 5 stars Hot for Prisoner Since Shawshank Redemption and the time I met hero Michael Scofield from the TV show Prison Break, I've been fascinated by prison stories. While this novel captured some of the thrill of a forbidden prison romance, Eric Collier is no Michael Scofield. Annie Goodhouse is woman in her mid-twenties who recently moved from her hometown of Charleston to a town near Detroit. There are two reasons for her move: 1) a new job as a librarian in Michigan and 2) an ex-boyfriend who abused her in South Carolina. "I'd needed a change of scenery. A place with snowy winters, where the men spoke in honest, sharp-edged Northern accents, incapable of glazing their empty promises in sweet Southern honey." One day a week, librarian Annie teaches and mentors at a local prison. There she meets tall, handsome, and quiet inmate Eric. When she helps him with his learning disability, he practices how to write better ...