11.30.2023

It’s the Holiday Season…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… festive… shiny and bright… I love holiday ornaments: they can bring you UP when you’re feeling DOWN… 


The inspiration behind my sketchbook painting…


The process… pencil sketch to ink and paint…



Let the holiday season begin and may you enjoy time with your loved ones and remember those who can’t be with you… memories of times spent together fill our hearts with love…





11.29.2023

Days of Week Together in One Book

Mon - Tues - Weds - Thurs - Fri - Sat... ALL days of the week in ONE BOOK... Swoon worthy romances... Cafélicious COMING SOON!!! 



Welcome to the Hookup Café Series featuring a quaint café called Cafélicious, located in the downtown area of San Diego, owned by Pansie. Sitting at a table in the café, meet her friends, employees, customers, and her poetry man Basil. 

Read swoon worthy romances with Marzi's delivery man Avery; Evie's musical man Nate; Saylor's beastly man Deacon; Vivienne's blind date Mason... and from an all-male point of view, Vin tells how he was tormented by Darla. 

Come along and enjoy the laughs, tears, friendships, and romance that this series has to offer!

Six stories in one book: 
Monday: Tall, Dark & Aromatic
Tuesday: A Double Shot
Wednesday: With Lots of Cream
Thursday: Bold, Rich & Strong
Friday: Laced with Spice
Saturday: Light, Full Bodied & Screwed


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More details about each story below...

MONDAY: Tall, Dark & Aromatic
When a sinfully gorgeous man enters Cafélicious, the owner, Pansie, is consumed with his beauty and although she thinks he might be homeless, he has captured her heart without even knowing it. Basil, the man in question, is instantly smitten by Pansie and makes it his mission in life to woo her with his poetry and charm. Could it be that he is the man for her at the so-called Hookup Café?





TUESDAY: A Double Shot 
When a hunky delivery man steps through baker Marzi’s kitchen doors of Cafélicious early one morning, she gets from more than the supplies needed to create her amazing sweet treats. Avery gives a whole new meaning to the words excellent customer service and he’s willing to deliver far more than his goods. Marzi busy with her business and personal issues, limits Avery to one day a week. Will he continue to accept her limitations or will he breakthrough and get her to provide him with dessert anytime, anywhere?






WEDNESDAY: With Lots of Cream 
When Evie welcomes everyone to Cafélicious’ Open-Mic night, she finds herself doing something totally out of her comfort zone thanks to a heart-stopping, beautiful man sitting close to the stage sporting sexy arm tats. Nate stares up at the vision before him with his clear blue eyes and finds himself lost to her as he watches the shy café server belt out a sensuous song. Their love of music draws them closer together. It was supposed to be a summer fling, but will it turn into something more?





THURSDAY: Bold, Rich & Strong 
When one very muscular man walks up to the counter of Cafélicious, head barista Saylor is abruptly asked if she was named after a one-night stand her mother had with a stranger. Not one easily intimidated, she puts Deacon in his place which only seems to make him come on stronger and when he tells her that she likes him because he is bold, rich, and strong, she isn’t sure if that’s true or if she wants to slap him. Could it be that he is right?





FRIDAY: Laced with Spice 
When Vivienne joins an online blind-dating service and sets a date, she has him meet her at Cafélicious owned by her best friend where they can check him out to make sure he is not a dud or worse. Unbeknownst to mystery man Mason, her friends are texting her a message that reads laced with spice meaning that he is handsome and that she should show up. What will happen when he finds out that she has cheated the system?





SATURDAY: Light, Full Bodied & Screwed 
When a stunning woman sits down at a counter where chef Vin is attempting to create gourmet dishes, he decides that she should be banned from sitting so close to him. It turns out that she will not be leaving his sight as Darla is the new wine rep in charge of pairing his cuisine with her wines. Listening to her wine presentations that put him on the edge, he categorizes her as light, full-bodied and himself as screwed. Can these two pair up outside of Cafélicious?




ALL STORIES IN ONE BOOK COMING SOON!!!





11.28.2023

2023 Version…Second Chance RomCom

Book One of my Billionaire series… Controlling the Billionaire has been edited and is NOW available… a fun second chance romantic comedy… FREE with Kindle Unlimited…



Morgan Butler is an ex-professional water polo player looking for a place to fit within his family-owned multi-billion dollar communications company. He is the oldest, least mature, reckless, wild child of the family.

Waverly Monroe is an independent businesswoman alone in the world and determined to be successful. She has worked extra hard and landed herself in charge of a new division within Butler Industries.

Morgan, thinking that he has been given the reins of the new extension of the company is quickly knocked off balance when he finds Waverly sitting in his chair in what he believes is his office.

What will happen when Morgan learns that Waverly is in control of not only the new division but him too?








11.27.2023

NEW 2023 Book Releases

Here are two more GREAT STORIES with a NEW 2023 vibe... more romcom-ish... less graphic naughtiness... laugh . smile . swoon reading JUST A NUMBER and 11 ENTICING DONUTS... 


Not looking for love.

No details.

Follow rules and restrictions.

Only fun. No feelings.

Forever--not an option.

Simple Flings.

They were all just a number.

Dash Oliver and Willow Dane both shared the same philosophy.

That is, until a merger of sorts.

Thrown together by fate or serendipity, was their connection... their chemistry... their compatibility enough to convince them that their rules were made to be broken and that they belonged together?




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Open a donut—patisserie style—shop... Check!
Create incredible sweet goodness... Check!
Have patrons raving, craving and returning... Check!

Falling all over myself while doing and saying crazy things at the sight of one beautiful customer... Not part of my business plan!

A sweet match made in heaven or a fiery mixture: Peyton Beignet and Valentina Zeppole? 








11.26.2023

Sunday Parisian Vibe

Revisiting some older paintings created by me lately... I love to share them again... coffee... pastry... flowers never get old...






Hope you're enjoying your Sunday!





 

11.25.2023

NEW 2023 version of Making Waves

I'm making my way through my backlog of romance books... MORE romcom... eliminating graphic steaminess... Making Waves is my latest one to be reworked and is NOW AVAILABLE and FREE with Kindle Unlimited...





This romantic comedy will make you smile, laugh, and swoon! A friends to lovers romance you don't want to miss! Jack wants Mitzi while she thinks he's unattainable.

When my sexy business partner, Jack Fritzi, suggested that we take a vacation together to a resort near a beach under the pretense of bonding and working on designs for our new collection of footwear, I imagined Monte Carlo by the sea.

What I got was a quaint campground with trailers, tents and cabins surrounding a lake which didn't exactly match the high fashion clothing and delicate sandals created by me, Mitzi Warren, that I had packed in my designer luggage.

The location proved to be a great find, but it was the way that surfer Jack continued making waves in our relationship that was the biggest surprise of all that threatened to end our business partnership.

Can we survive our time together at the Happy Endings Resort?

NOTE: This book is a STANDALONE book in a series called The Happy Endings Resort - ONE resort - LOTS of Different Stories from OTHER authors to be read







11.23.2023

Happy Thanksgiving

Cheers to all that I am grateful for: my family, my good health, my friends… life is good!





May you have a lovely day with your friends and family
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Days



Photos in this post are via Pinterest… not my home

 

11.22.2023

I’ll be home for Christmas… have snow

FUN painting custom Christmas cards… this is the final approved painting to be made into 4” x 6” notecards with white envelopes…


Preliminary painting had a pale green roof and green door… and the client had me darken the roof and change the door to red as you can see above…


Here is the inspiration photo used…


Here is my painting process for this design job…



I used watercolor paints, acrylic paint, ink and to create the snowing effect I applied drawing gum over my inked sketch… let it snow… or I’ll be home for Christmas…please have snow


11.21.2023

Decorating for Characters

LOVE interior decor and I have such a GOOD time using my interior design background to create environments for my book characters… These are an example of what inspired Chanel Devlin’s office space (top two) and murphy bed for her studio condo…


STEALING HEARTS unedited book excerpt…

I was going to select a corner office but I had my heart set on painting a wall in a rich turquoise to make two white chairs with chocolate brown legs on either side of a medium-sized white Saarinen-knockoff dining table pop! I had a good sized signed and dark brown framed print—because I couldn’t afford an original—of a Renaldo Rossellini painting on the same turquoise wall. The opposite wall was filled with inexpensive dark stained wood bookcases with adjustable shelves to allow me large spaces for different colored glass vases and some large coffee table-sized fashion books. A basic three-drawer-across-the-top stained wood desk sat in front of the bookcase with a modern white ribbed leather office chair. All of the wood in the room was the same dark chocolate brown shade including accordion folding shutter doors to block the windows on sunny days and to hang clothing to be photographed. The floors were polished concrete throughout the office building but I had a larger low-pile navy blue area rug with a slight line pattern in it covering the floor, only showing about two feet of concrete from all four walls.


Of course… Levi Laurent needed a look for his office desk…

Another unedited book excerpt…

Sitting in my office, folders had been placed on my solid wood conference-table-looking desk minus drawers. “Take your pick” was scribbled on a post-it note. After careful research, my assistant working along with my top-analysts had found three good-bets—sound online businesses for my company to purchase.

This book will steal your heart!

Chanel Devlin has been a fashionista since the day she was born.

Levi Laurent has always been a successful businessman with compliant employees.

When Levi purchases a very successful fashion blog, he is faced with one very unhappy fashionista and she plans to fight every change management tries to make. Chanel knows what is best for Fashionista Forward but does she know how to keep Levi from stealing her heart?


Release date… stay tuned for more information



 

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