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Jul 19, 2012
2 min

Author-friendly in spades – Kobo’s new WritingLife Rocks

I went right over to find out what Kobo meant by writer-friendly. Amazon’s interface is writer-friendly, as is Smashwords. Barnes and Noble’s, not so much , but I’m hoping for improvements there now that Microsoft has invested in B&N. If Writing Life made it as convenient to publish eBooks as Smashwords and Amazon, I’d be happy. More would definitely be a bonus. I got much more! Signup: The signup process was easy – it took me less than 5 minutes, and that included looking up

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Mar 13, 2012
4 min

To DRM or not to DRM – with apologies to Hamlet!

Hopefully Shakespeare’s ghost will forgive me for mangling that line from Hamlet’s famous soliloquy! (Note: This article has previously been posted on the PenWarriors blog) A couple of weeks ago when I sent out a tweet announcing that all my eBooks are available in DRM-free editions from Amazon and Smashwords, someone asked for clarification. The subsequent conversation sent me on a hunt for clear descriptions of the DRM (Digital Rights Management) issue as it applies to eBoo

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Jan 30, 2012
1 min

STORM – set on Haida Gwaii – free on Amazon stores Jan 30 and 31!

Storm is my second novel, the story of Luke and Laurie falling in love on the magical islands of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia. Luke and Laurie have always had a special place in my heart, and the storm that drew them together symbolized many coastal adventures I’ve shared with my husband. When I wrote Storm, I set the story on the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, islands originally named after the wife of the British King George III without regard to the fact t

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Dec 26, 2011
2 min

“Storm – the Author’s Cut” is now available

I expected to have this new edition of one of my favourite romances up back in September, but when I started editing the manuscript in preparation for the new release, I couldn’t resist making a few small changes – then one thing led to another, and here it is, almost the end of December. Storm is my second novel, the story of Luke and Laurie falling in love on the magical islands of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia. Luke and Laurie have always had a special place in my heart,

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Yippee! … If You Loved Me

Sep 21, 2011
2 min

Yippee! … If You Loved Me

Yesterday I received the almost-ready-to-publish-as-an-ebook file of If You Loved Me Originally I wrote it for Mills and Boon Harlequin, but my editor there wanted me to make the heroine younger (she was in her late thirties), and change the father of her son to someone else The whole story was based on the premise that Emma’s son had gone kayaking in the wilderness with a friend, and was now missing. Changing Emma’s age would have made her either a child-mother, or a neglige

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Mar 20, 2011
20 min

Awakening Dreams – a sample

Chapter One For a second, as she came through the door into the unadorned office, she had the impossible thought that the man behind the counter was David. The illusion was fleeting, a product of that first glimpse of the stranger’s dark, luxuriously curling hair. When he looked up, her heart slowed. Of course it wasn’t David. The stranger’s shoulders were harder, broader, and he would be taller when he stood straight. David had been dark and tall and sleek, competent in city

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