Some weeks are good news/bad news in equal proportions and this one was no exception. Earlier in the week I finished edits for my fantasy romance novella going into the “Masked Hearts” anthology being release by Roane Publishing around May of this year. The edit process was painless and I am delighted to have met…

I met my neighbor this morning. It was early, well before the sun came out, and she was smoking in the front of her driveway near the street. I had never met her before. This may not seem remarkable except for the fact that I’ve lived in my house for close to twenty-two years, and…

Dear friends: What a great year this has been! This year was the year I really doubled down on my commitment to my writing, and it paid off. I am still smiling over getting my first book deal, hopefully the first of many more to come. This year I put up the remaining two books…

Hi, all:   My friend Rebekah has dared a few of us to take a prompt she posts and write a story (or part of a story) around it. Then we post them on Fridays. This is what she gave us for last Friday and I wrote an initial scene around the prompt. I hope…

I wrote this for the December LARA newsletter. Hope you enjoy it! My first publishing deal   September 29, 2015 is a day I will always remember. That was the day when I received an offer from Samhain Publishing to publish the first book in my Elementals’ Challenge series titled “Fire Danger.” I was in…

Welcome to my new, redesigned website! We hope that the new design will create a better interactive experience for everyone. There have been many sensational things happening over the last few months, and there is much more to come. I have been writing short stories for the last year and several have been accepted for…

I’m watching “Dancing with the Stars” this cycle. This may not seem like news, but I had decided a few cycles ago that I was done with the show. It seemed to me the same pros always won. I stopped watching but my co-workers did not. For the past few cycles I have been out…

From the time I was a teenager I wanted to be a writer. When I was in my early 20s I dreamed of being signed to Harlequin, and thought that was something that would automatically happen. When reality slapped me in the face with rejections, I stopped trying. Until two and a half years ago…

Hi, all! Here is a reprint of an article I wrote for the September issue of the LARA (Los Angeles Romance Authors) newsletter. Hope you enjoy it! Claire   How much is that genre in the window? When I started discussing my writing I was quick to tell people who asked that I wrote contemporary…

One of the great things about writing is how much I get to travel. This year alone I’ve been to Luxembourg, Ireland, Morocco, Egypt, Italy, Greece and Mongolia. Currently I am in Ushuaia, located in Argentina, generally considered to be the southernmost city in the world. It’s a key access point to many islands and…