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A fresh look, at myself
Recently, I lost some weight and decided to reward myself by taking some new professional headshots. See my old post about the modeling session with my horse here. That was a riot. We learned then that my horse is not the most patient or understanding of...
Review: Dry as Rain
From the bestselling author of Crossing Oceans comes a powerfully moving story that tests the limits of love’s forgiveness. Like many marriages, Eric and Kyra Yoshida’s has fallen apart slowly, one lost dream and misunderstanding at a time, until the ultimate betrayal...
Story Behind the Story: Staci Stallings
In retrospect, maybe I shouldn't have named the book "A Work in Progress." Maybe that was my first clue of how long this particular book would take to write. The planting of the seed happened over a message board about 10 years ago. Remember message boards? You posted...
How my life as a rodeo queen affected my fiction…
See my guest blog at Sandra Ardoin's blog! (And check out her post from Wednesday about her own horsey adventures!)
First Horse Horror Story: Sandy Ardoin
Nicole here: Today's post is from Sandy Ardoin - one of my fabulous critique partners and fellow horse lover. Check out her blog to learn about her writing journey. Grace. That’s what my dad called him. When I got him, his name was Sonny, plain and simple—and dull....
Why I failed to go completely “digital”
A while back, I made some big claims, started a new revolution of sorts. I was going PAPERLESS! Using some fantastic efficiency apps and new toys, I was on my way. Going completely digital and ultra hip. It's what the cool kids do, these days. Well, I failed. This is...
First-Horse Horror Story: Here’s mine…
If you didn't catch PR/Social Media guru extraordinaire, Mandee Widrick's story, check it out! For me, my first horse inspired a lot of my current horse characters and taught me more about life than perhaps any other horse I've owned. If you don't have horses, I'm...
First-Horse Horror Story: Mandee Widrick
Nicole here: I met Mandee Widrick through a Social Media Managers group on Facebook — she saw the horse in my profile picture and sent me a message right away! When I looked into her web consulting and speaking business I was blown away. She started the beautiful...
What we should aspire to become
There's no shortage of amazing people in this world. Look past the salacious headlines and popular rabble and you'll find artists, musicians, actors, writers and so many more who dedicate their lives to others. And then they surprise in yet another way. Last...
Review: The Aristocrat’s Lady
Description: For a few moments on a moonlit balcony, Nicole Beaumont was just a beautiful woman catching the eye of the handsome Lord Devlin—but she knew the illusion couldn't last. If the enigmatic aristocrat knew her secret, he'd realize that her disability left her...