I know, I keep saying I’m going to write about the genesis of my character Kareena Boudreaux in SINNERS AND SAINTS, and I keep meaning to, really. It’s just that there are so many interesting different factors in writing, that I feel a compulsion to write about something else and then forget Kareena. And I’m… Read More

Oh, if writing were a linear life. If only I wrote a book, published a book, basked in the glory of publishing a book(or the ignominious shame of not selling a book well), and then started researching the next book. Of course, if I did it that way, it would take at least twice as… Read More

It’s been a few days since I’ve posted. Amazing how time flies when you have twenty people to the house for Christmas eve and then another thirty five to your dad’s the next day. We had a wonderful Christmas. My whole family was here, which every year is getting to be a much more iffy… Read More

“Excuse me. Can you tell me where VC Andrews is?”And so begins another adventure in the wonderful world of booksignings. Here I am at a major chain bookseller, sitting at the little table they’ve set up right in the pathway to not only the information booth but the bathroom–because people WANT you to interrupt their… Read More

To preface this, let me say that when I set out to write SINNERS AND SAINTS, I knew that my heroine was going to be a classic fish out of water. A certified forensic nurse who worked in St. Louis, she has to wade through the good old boy network of New Orleans politics and… Read More

I swear I was going to be posting sooner than this. But you see, an ice storm hit last week, and I was without power or access to my internet for five days. FIVE DAYS. Did I tell you I’m a lousy refugee? I spent all that time rotating through siblings and trying to keep… Read More

So there I was about to go on the offensive about promoting my SINNERS AND SAINTS, which should appear in paperback any minute now, when Thanksgiving happened. Now you have to understand that Thanksgiving isn’t just a holiday in my house. It’s a sporting event. Because my lovely husband’s grandmother was a collector of note–the… Read More

It amazes me sometimes how the rest of the world can be so organized. I just looked up from the Silhouette Nocturne book I’ve been writing as Kathleen to discover that it’s November, and darned if I don’t have a November book coming out(as Eileen). And not just any book; my beloved SINNERS AND SAINTS…. Read More

I’m afraid I’m always a day late and a dollar short on industry news. But I just caught wind(and a pretty foul one) of the crap that was posted on the blog of an anonymous hack who calls herself Ms. Snark about Anne Stuart. I say hack, because even her writing is insignificant. If you… Read More

Did I tell you I’m from St. Louis? Did I happen to mention I’m a Cardinals fan? Well, my son has told me he can never put me in a nursing home, now. I took him to a World Series game. And if I can finally figure out how to post pictures, I’ll put up… Read More