I write contemporary legal romances – books about a fictional Philadelphia legal community.  My lawyers are smart, funny, fair and able to fall in love.  Technically, I’m not writing paranormal romances but I can see how someone could get confused.

After several different careers, including one as a lawyer, I’m back to my first choice: writing romance novels.

I write my stories because I believe even lawyers deserve to fall in love.

I’m currently working on Blackjack and Moonlight, which is number three in a series of four novels.  The first in the series, Love in Reality, is done and making the rounds of agents, contest judges, and beta readers.  The second in the series is next up.  I know I’m writing them out of order, but Jack McIntyre — the hero of Blackjack and Moonlight — brings a hardheaded rational quality to the other stories.  I just had to write about what happens when he falls in love with someone who really just wants to have fun.  He thinks he knows what he needs to do, but when that doesn’t work, what next?

Speaking of knowing what to do, I spent all of 2010 learning about this profession and the romance genre, and 2011 will bring more of the same.  It’s not like there’s a specific graduation day!  Thinking about interesting people falling in love and then writing their stories has been my dream job for over 30 years.  Now it is my day job.

They say we should write what we know.  Well, I’ve learned a lot over the years, doing many jobs between my very first (rejected) romance manuscript in the 1970s and today.  To find out how I filled in those decades, check out my bio here.  Or you can just wait until I mine those experiences for my books!

To find out more about my stories about lawyers in love, you can read blurbs for the four books I have planned so far, or read the first chapters of Blackjack and Moonlight.

And if you want to know what I think of romances — both specific books and the genre generally — you can read my blog, Promantica.

Or you can see what my life is like here, what my quilts look like here, or what my on-again, off-again knitting is like here.

Finally, if you have any comments or questions, or just want to say “Hi,” you can do so here.  I’d love to hear from you!