While Snowbound hits the eBook shelves!

There was a bit of delay in its release, but While Snowbound it now available at Amazon and Smashwords. Look for it at Barnes and Noble any time now, and it should be showing up at the other eBook retailers within a week or so. I'll be releasing a paperback version in the near future, for my readers who still prefer paper.

The female protagonist in this story is for all my Indi friends out there. Because like us, she is an independent author - making a living doing what she loves, while guiding her own ship.

Except in this story, her life takes an unexpected turn...so much for guiding her own ship.

Who would you want to be snowbound with?

My self-publisher protagonist, for my fellow writers

Aspiring writers have long been reminded of Mark Twain’s famous quote, “write what you know.” Some argue the quote shouldn’t be rigidly applied. If everyone did, there would be no books about vampires, time travel or alien invasions.

As for me, I tend to stay close to what I know when crafting characters. I probably won’t be writing spy novels like some of my author friends. I tend to stay closer to Nancy Drew.

In Lessons, the protagonist and her husband owned a restaurant. There are four generations of restaurateurs in our family.  My grandfather owned a restaurant – my parents owned a restaurant and my husband and I once owned a restaurant. Our son is in restaurant management.

The next book in the Coulson Series, The Senator’s Secret, the female protagonist is an Arizona real estate agent. My husband is an Arizona Broker and I was a real estate agent for a number of years.

The female protagonist in After Sundown works in the restaurant industry, and the male protagonist is a general contractor. My father was a general contractor.

In my soon to be released, While Snowbound, the female protagonist is a self-published independent author. Her career is an intricate part of the story line. In fact there would be no real story if she worked in any other field.

For independent writers who enjoy reading romance, I suspect they might get a kick out of While Snowbound, especially considering what happens at the end of the story.