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Explore the Galápagos Islands—from Home!

Author Angie Hockman’s favorite resources to virtually explore the Galapagos Islands, the setting of her debut rom-com, SHIPPED…

THE HUSTLER wins the Golden Heart®!

I’m so pleased and honored that my romantic suspense, THE HUSTLER, was named the 2019 Golden Heart® Award Winner for Romantic Suspense! When I first started writing THE HUSTLER around Christmas of 2015, I never could have fathomed that my story about a tech-savvy private investigator falling in love with the subject of her investigation—a…

Sparkle Shoes & Jumpsuits: My RWA Packing List

I can’t believe that in a little less than a week, I’ll be traveling to New York City for the 2019 Romance Writers of America National Conference! I attended the conference in Orlando in 2017, so I have some inkling of what’s in store—namely, a whirlwind week of networking, learning, and connecting…

Guest Blogging with the Rubies, Squee!

Because the romance community is full of lovely, inspiring folks who want to uplift newbie writers, the 2009 RWA Golden Heart® Award Finalists—better known as the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood—invited all of us Omegas (the 2019 RWA Golden Heart® Award Finalists) to submit a guest post to their amazing blog. And mine is up TODAY! To say…

THE HUSTLER is a Golden Heart Finalist!

It’s taken me three months to truly wrap my head around this news, but I’m so pleased to share that my romantic suspense, THE HUSTLER, is a RWA Golden Heart® Award Finalist! Finaling in the Golden Heart has always been a pie-in-the-sky writing dream of mine, and I still can’t believe…

New Year, New Outlook, New Genre (…plus contest finals, huzzah!)

Something you should know about me: I’m always up for an adventure. Whether it’s traveling to a new place, trying my hand at a new hobby, or hopping in the car and seeing where the road takes me, I figure life’s too short to stay in your comfort zone. So earlier this year, when…

Loving the Elusive Em-Dash

Hold onto your hamburgers, folks, because I’m about to nerd-out—hard. I wasn’t always a punctuation nerd. My eighth grade English teacher nearly murdered any love I had for reading or language or writing with the absolutely dreaded, still-to-this-day confounding—wait for it—sentence diagram. Who else suffered through endless hours of drawing out…

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