The Emotional Impact of Discovering Your True Parentage

If you’ve considered having your DNA analyzed by one of the popular testing services, is it because you believe secrets lurk in your family tree? As I recently discovered in doing research for my Romancing Our Roots novels, many people are talking about DNA surprises, also called (MP) misattributed paternity or (NPE) nonpaternity events/not parentContinue reading “The Emotional Impact of Discovering Your True Parentage”

A Word About Those Great Genes

You’ve probably heard discussions about American Eagle’s jeans advertisement that states Sydney Sweeney, their celebrity model, has great genes. You can read about that story from other sources. I’m just talking about genetics here, as my eighth romance novel, Lucky Genes, is about to launch. Your high school biology class probably lauded Gregor Mendel, anContinue reading “A Word About Those Great Genes”

FOLLOWING THE ROMANCE RULES

Those who read or write romance are well aware of the presence of tropes, predictable situations that help structure a relationship between two people as they fall in love. Let’s get that out of the way. The first Rule of Romance Writing is that two people have to fall in love and there will beContinue reading “FOLLOWING THE ROMANCE RULES”