Category Archives: How Shay’s Brain Thinks
Holiday Gifts of Love Blog Hop
Thanks for hopping to my blog during the Holiday Gifts of Love Blog Hop. I have a $5 gift card to award one lucky commenter. Enter using the Rafflecopter below. EACH blog in the hop is doing a giveaway. Yep. … Continue reading
Crimson Wonderland Blog Hop
Thanks for hopping to my blog during the Crimson Wonderland Blog Hop. I have a $5 gift card to award one lucky commenter. Enter using the Rafflecopter below. Most of the blogs in the hop are doing a giveaway, so please visit all … Continue reading
Learning Tension from Weather
A few weeks ago, as Hurricane Sandy marched up the east coast, I watched the flags on the flagpoles across the street. They blew east, then west, then south, and then they hung limp before the wind picked up again. … Continue reading
Autumn’s Harvest Blog Hop
Thanks for hopping to my blog during the Autumn’s Harvest Blog Hop. I have a $5 gift card to award one lucky commenter. Enter using the Rafflecopter below. EACH blog in the hop is doing a giveaway. Yep. There will … Continue reading
What Would You Do for Your BFF?
I’m also over at Crimson Romance today talking about finding the story magic. This past weekend I spent time with my BFF. We both lead busy lives, so I had to book an appointment with her a month ago. She … Continue reading
There’s A Castle in my Novel…
…And it’s not a historical setting! This is Belhurst Castle on Seneca Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in New York. I feature it in a scene in my novel Hero Needed, released from Crimson Romance on October 22nd. Writers … Continue reading
When Setting is a Character
You can also find me guest blogging at the following blogs: Jill Kemerer, Word Wrangers and Rue Allyn. Setting plays an integral role in my latest novel, Hero Needed, released from Crimson Romance on October 22nd. The story takes place … Continue reading
Snooki and My Heroine: Sisters Under the Skin
What do Snooki Polizzi from Jersey Shore, Cote de Pablo of NCIS and Anjelita Avalos, the mother of the heroine in my novel Hero Needed, have in common? They were born in Santiago, Chile. The country of Chile runs along … Continue reading
The Single Parent Bond
Single parenthood is practically a trope in romance novels. As a backstory, current situation, or for the secret baby trope, single parenthood provides goal, motivation and sometimes conflict in a story. As a backstory, a hero coming from a single … Continue reading
Capturing an Idea
I took my camera out this past weekend to photograph fall in northwest Ohio at its finest. My photographer husband has taught me photo composition and the intricacies of photography, so I do more than point and shoot for pretty … Continue reading
