Hammerblog

Because I’m done, baby! As of 12:30 this morning, the first draft of PRODIGAL is finished, a roller-coaster journey that began last year when I first put pen to paper (well, fingers to keyboard–but you know what I mean). I e-mailed the manuscript to my long-suffering editor this morning, who has been patiently awaiting a completed draft since last September. If you’re reading this, Juliet, a bottle of booze is on the way.

Behind the scenes, it’s been ...

Last month, I got a surprise request from my editor. No, she didn’t ask me to write the next Star Wars novel (though if you’re reading this, Juliet, I woudn’t mind!). But she did want to know if I would interview one of my fellow Spectra authors for November’s issue of the Spectra Pulse, my publisher’s newsletter. Feeling my old journalistic oats, I heartily agreed.

The subject of my interview, Tamara Siler Jones (of the ...