The National Anthem of Sondmark
The Impossible Princess and The Winter Princess both quote 2 bloody verses of the national anthem of Sondmark. Sons of Sondmark slide...
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May 31, 202310 min read
Her Caprice--Alternate Beginning
This is a deep cut, dredged out of GoogleDocs after I did a little housekeeping. For my first book, I must have started that first...
Feb 19, 20214 min read
Esther and Jacob
Esther watched Jacob approach the party, which was being held under the ancient oak trees on the edge of fields bare from the harvest....
Jul 30, 20203 min read
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...
Jun 12, 20203 min read
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...
Mar 8, 20203 min read
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 29, 20193 min read
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...
May 4, 20193 min read
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, 20193 min read
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...
Mar 30, 20192 min read
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, 20193 min read
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...
Jan 31, 20193 min read
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, 20192 min read
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 19, 20192 min read
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, 20187 min read
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...
Sep 24, 20182 min read
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...
Sep 21, 20183 min read
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...
Sep 2, 20182 min read
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, 20182 min read
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...
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