Warning–hot beach house pictures ahead! We’re just over ONE MONTH away from the release of HOT SEAL, DIRTY MARTINI so I thought I’d give you a peek into my writing process. Hot SEAL, Dirty Martini is about a west coast Navy SEAL who put in his twenty years and is looking forward to a peaceful retirement in the beach paradise he just found for sale–a 1950s bungalow he wants to buy and renovate. Of course the heroine is there to throw a wrench into his plans because this is an enemies-to-lovers theme, but more about that later . . . this post is about the house itself. When I write books and the setting or the buildings are a critical part of the plot, I always research actual sites in the location where the story is set. For instance, when I wrote Cowboy Blue (originally titled A Cowboy for Christmas) set on a cattle ranch in Colorado, I searched and found an actual ranch listed for sale in that area, and that listing provided pictures and facts such as number of acres and number and types of buildings, all that helped me with much needed details for the story. For Hot SEAL, […]