Victoria Lee Anglo

Second of three new characters. In Book # 3, “Race Against Time” I bring in three additional characters who have an impact on the central story and the lead players themselves. Victoria Lee Anglo, hails from Canada and lived in upstate New York for many years, until her husband passed away under the most suspicious…

Chasing The Real Thing

What romance novels are about. When it comes right down to it, it’s the honest-to-God emotion that all lead players are after – the nice ones, and even some of the villains as well. Romance as a genre is after all, about amore, and when you choose a title to read there’s lots of things…

Midway Mary

One of three new characters. In Book # 3, “Race Against Time”, I appropriately enough created three new characters. I’ll now introduce the first one, Mary Prattle, better known as Midway Mary, who comes into the story as an interesting personality, even though she is not one of the leads. Mary adds quite a bit…

Fountain Pens

A very cool tool back in the day.   Mid nineteenth century United States was a time of great invention and great change. Writing letters was still the number one way to communicate whether it was personal, business, official or whatever the nature. So when the fountain pen hit the scene in 1830 in Birmingham,…

Heroes Are Like Johnny And Heroines Are Like June

Two favorite romantic role models. We’ve all heard of Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah and all the Fairy Tale Princes and Princesses. But we don’t have to go back centuries or look to the world of make believe to find a man and a woman who loved each other so much that the whole…

Facing Heartbreak

It’s part of every love story. Usually there is a point in any romance novel that brings a character face to face with heartbreak. Not just feeling low or disappointed. No, this is much more than that. It’s a feeling as if the heart in their chest is breaking in half and may never mend….