Hi Visitor: for the next week, I will not be blogging on this site.
I am guest blogging on  Ask The Author forum on the Romantic Times website,
Visit me there and let me hear from you.
Elizabeth

Tricia: I was struck by your comment on my books - “It’s like I’m watching a movie and the scenes are brought to life with your words.”
That’s how I plot my books. I make a list of scenes with emotions that are running high, not necessarily love scenes, but action scenes or scenes of great [...]

Talking about heroines . . . something that has always puzzled me. Every month, Romantic Times names its K.I.S.S. heroes. This month, James Burnett, my male protagonist in The Runaway McBride was one of them. I have nothing against singling out men for an award. But there’s no mention of the female protagonists. This seems [...]

If you haven’t picked up January’s issue of Oprah’s magazine, you’re missing out on the best New Year’s motivational piece I’ve  yet to read. I’ve read many motivational writers’ books and listened to their spiels. The message always seems to be “if you do as I say, you can be as rich, as svelte, as [...]

I sure wish the US election was over. I’ve become a CNN junkie - Campbell Brown, Larry King, and Anderson Cooper and let’s not forget David Gergen - every night. I know the red states, the blue states, and the all the shades-in-between states. John King appears and my husband says, “Not that map again!” [...]

Just working on the bookpage on my website, checking the availability of my books and discovered that My Guardian Angel, a 1995 anthology in which I had a short story, The Trouble With Angels, is listed for sale at $23.00!! $23.00 for a paperback? What is going on?

During the sermon this morning, our minister asked us to recall some particular moment that he called “The ah-h-h . . .” moment that we had experienced during the past week. This was supposed to be a faith based moment.
What came to my mind were moments I had shared with my husband and three grown [...]

I had to do a lot of rewriting this week before I was satisfied with my new novel (I’m amost finished it). As I read what I had written, I began to feel really dissatisfied with a couple of my characters. They just didn’t come across as real people. They seemed two dimensional, not [...]

This weekend, I had a visit from an old friend who is a lawyer with the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. We are both older (definitely – we haven’t seen each other for 20 years) and wiser (perhaps) and it was so good to bring our life stories up to date. He [...]

This is my first blog ever. The reason I’ve started is because a lot of the time I feel cut off. If I worked in an office, I’d have colleagues to run things by or spark ideas from. It’s true that I get e-mails from readers who want me to know how much they have [...]