History, Real Life, and Faith
One of the best parts about writing a book featuring a massage therapist as the heroine, is I had to have a massage “for research.” In January (thank you Montecito Heights Spa) in February (thank you, Hotel del Coronado Spa) and in March (thank you, Coldwater Creek Spa). I’d had massages before of course, here in California but also in…
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Unusual Meetings that led to love and marriage
Shoulders of steel and a Chinese massage
Even for a writer, Navy SEALS research means skullduggery
Military life can’t always been explained, but there are books that can help others understand. My husband spent the first twenty years of our marriage as a serving naval officer. He was a submariner and we had the good fortune (thank you, American taxpayers) to live in all four corners of the United States and Hawai’i. When he attended basic…
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Where do you get your story ideas? Are they based on real people and real events? In my latest book, Bridging Two Hearts, the answer, like always, is “sort of.” 1. From real people’s characters This is Ben. He’s in the Navy and his experience trying to become a SEAL prompted me to think about the difficulties of being a…
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