May 2013 Stars & Stripes Calendar Wallpaper

Happy May Day and time for a new edition of the monthly desktop calendar wallpaper! This month’s design was inspired by Memorial Day and the May 7th paperback release of my military Red, Hot & Blue series novel A FEW GOOD MEN. What is most special is that the background image of the US flag through the camo netting was taken by one of my military consultants upon arrival at his new camp in Djibouti way back in 2006. I love that picture and am honored to share it with all of you. As usual, there are sizes that will hopefully fit both your widescreen or standard screen computer. Enjoy and feel free to share with your friends! 1024 x 640 1024 x 768 800 x 500 800 x 640 1152 x 720 1280 x 1040 1440 x 900 On a side note, I am currently in Kansas City, MO for the Romantic Times 30th Anniversary Booklovers Convention. If you’re there with me, find me! If you’re not, might want to keep an eye out for drunken social media posts, because we all know that what happens at the convention…ends up on Facebook. 🙂

A PRINCE AMONG MEN eRelease Today!

Who needs a prince when there’s a sexy soldier in your bunk? Hoo rah! Red, Hot, & Blue, Book 9 . Sergeant Ryan Pettit blogs anonymously as Groundpounder, recording non-confidential details of a deployment where every day feels exactly the same—until a female reporter shows up at his firebase. And he realizes nothing will ever be the same again. . Though his orders are clear—protect her, but make her life so miserable she high tails it back to London—the last thing he wants is to watch her leave in a cloud of Afghanistan dust. Intrigued by Groundpounder’s blog posts, Vicki Vanover flirted, bribed, and outright threatened her way to the front lines outside of Kandahar. Nothing has ever stopped her from getting a story, but an accidental night in Ryan’s bunk is a distraction—and attraction—she never anticipated. . Yet Afghanistan leaves Vicki with more questions than answers. Why won’t Ryan let her anywhere near the local women she wants to interview? Who is the mysterious, red-headed Lt. Wales everyone treats with such deference? Worst of all, why is watching Ryan run toward danger, instead of away from it, enough to stop her heart? Warning: Contains super-hot sexual encounters in the […]

Insight into the mind of Tucker from ONE NIGHT WITH A COWBOY

I’m a woman. I’m a civilian. I’m not a testosterone-fueled man. I’m not career military personnel. In light of all of those points, I do one thing to help me write my military characters…I talk (on IM, by phone, on Skype, etc) to active duty, career military personnel as often as possible. Below, paraphrased because I don’t always take notes during these conversations, is what I’ve heard some of them say… 1) “They came by the shop today asking for volunteers to go be door kickers in Afghanistan. If I was 10 years younger I would have volunteered to go.” …Let me interpret this statement for you. This was about 4 or 5 years ago, before the troop reductions had begun. This active duty Marine, nearing his 20 year mark, was safely stationed  in the US. Someone from the Corps came to his squadron to ask for volunteers to go to Afghanistan and become part of a team whose job was to literally kick down doors to inspect the residences and search for insurgents, and men were going, while others who didn’t volunteer wished they could. 2) “I had to pull one of my guys off the Afghan det. He’s […]