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Money for Nothing This month Money for Nothing received an Indie Reader Discover Award for 2022. And it won in the category Paranormal. Fun! What did the judges say? “Julie Tetel Andresen’s second installment of the Shapeshifter Series, Money for Nothing, is a truly tantalizing murder mystery and fantasy novel complemented with a bit of […]

Hibernation. If you know anything about bears, you probably know they hibernate. You might also know about their love for honey and trout and salmon. And maybe you know that mama bears are, well, mama bears. You don’t mess with them. Title image: Courtesy of Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. No copyright infringement is […]

Monday is Saint Valentine’s Day. Cue the flowers and the chocolates. And the free romance novel I’m offering for the day! But first: How did this day devoted to love arise? Saint Valentine’s Day: The Origins Roman Emperor Claudius II had a man named Valentinus executed on February 14, 269 AD. The reasons vary. One. […]

Part of the fun of writing shapeshifter stories is to inhabit the world of the shifter animal. In Wealth Whispers – the third in my shapeshifter trilogy – it’s bears. That is to say: werebears. Werebears: Do Your Research First thing to do when writing a shapeshifter story: read up on the animal. As I’ve […]

Six years ago I first read about online love scams in a New York Times article. At the same time I met the lawyer for a professor at a local university. (I’m in North Carolina). The lawyer told me how the professor had fallen into the clutches of an online love scammer. Long story short, […]

“Oh, so that’s a rough draft. I’ve always wondered.” This was the remark a student made in response to my comment about his research paper: “When you make your points in the order you found them, that’s a rough draft.” I am a seasoned writer. Another way to put it: if I’m not seasoned by […]

Today I discovered that I suffer from a condition I didn’t even know existed: crossword clue envy. Would I like to see my name on the NY Times bestseller list? Sure. Would I be happy if Netflix knocked on my door? Of course. But when I came to 50 Down on a crossword I was […]

Today I’m delighted to share with you a guest post “Spices and Stern Lords” by Rose Vane. She’s here to tell us about her new release, A Stern Lord for My Lady, published by Blushing Books. She has written it under the pen name R. R. Vane. The story is set in the twelfth century […]

I’m re-reposting a 2017 repost of my Goodreads blog from 2014: On the term Bodice Ripper. It is my response to Ross Douthat’s op-ed in the New York Times today. He uses the term to describe a wildly popular Netflix series based on a series of novels understood by their readers to be romances. And […]