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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 dashing con…

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 with like-minded romance…

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 this is…

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 I got the…

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 my agent suggested…

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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