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Jul 30
3 min

You Should Read Betty Neels

I am a terrible door-to-door salesman. Granted, my evidence for this rests on an abysmal record of moving beef jerky sticks for the 4th g...

Jun 12
3 min

The Telling Touch: GIF Edition

I like this tradition we have. This lovingly-curated GIF edition of THE TELLING TOUCH is full of spoilers and skates over many plot point...

Mar 8
3 min

4 Literary Heroines for International Women's Day

International Women's Day is one of those internet holidays I still need Instagram Hashtags to remind me is happening. But Instagram did ...

Dec 30, 2019
3 min

The Reckoning (2019)

As my homeboy Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote, "The year is dying in the night. Ring out wild bells and let him die." I am a huge fan of retr...

May 4, 2019
3 min

10 Terrible Reasons to Read 'North and South'

You know the drill. There are great reasons to read Elizabeth Gaskell's 'North and South'. These spoiler-y reasons are not those reasons....

Apr 15, 2019
3 min

10 Terrible Reasons to Read 'Anna Karenina'

There are excellent reasons to read Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece, Anna Karenina. (I weep with reasons. They are many and varied and I feel t...

Mar 31, 2019
2 min

A Brief Love Story

My name is Keira Dominguez and I hate travel. (Hi, Keira.) I don’t know why this feels like I’m admitting to kicking puppies or not being...

Mar 3, 2019
3 min

Elizabeth in the New World

Darcy had done all this for the love of a woman he would never possess. Poor Darcy. He was such a fool. Author Maggie Mooha and I were in...

Jan 31, 2019
3 min

HER CAPRICE: Book Club Questions

FIrst, thank you for choosing HER CAPRICE for your book club! It gives me a nice, happy glow to think that this novel is being discussed ...

Jan 31, 2019
2 min

HER CAPRICE: Fancy GIF Edition

Some writers yearn for hand-tooled, leather-bound editions of their books. And, while I do think that a gilt-edged page is super spiffy, ...

Jan 20, 2019
2 min

Cover Art!

I had a call from my publisher this week, giving me a head's up on progress. Final edits are being nailed down this week and I should be ...

Nov 26, 2018
7 min

The Princess Switch: So Meta

Tis the season for impossibly sweet love stories wherein an uptight city girl returns to her hometown in time for Christmas to save the f...

Sep 24, 2018
2 min

Marcus and the Mondays

Fall has come. No matter what the calendar says, I can tell that Fall has arrived when I wake up and my first thought is about how we nee...

Sep 21, 2018
3 min

Sleep While the Baby Sleeps...and Other Crap Advice

I was 23 when I had my first Pledge of Conjugal Affection and weathered the usual storm of parenting advice. Don't put Baby to sleep on h...

Sep 3, 2018
2 min

The Inadequacy of Acknowledgements

There's that part of the Oscar telecast where a winner fishes a crumpled piece of paper from a plunging bodice and proceeds to read from ...

Aug 28, 2018
2 min

Pivot Sharknado

It was the first day of Kindergarten yesterday for my Littlest Pledge and I leave tomorrow to take the Biggest Pledge off to his first ye...

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