Today for Books of My Life, I’m and featuring New York Times bestselling author, Brenda Jackson. Brenda is a prolific and award-winning writer. She’s even been nominated for the prestigious RITA Award (the Oscars for the romance writing industry) four times! She became a writer in a rather unique way. Brenda was a working mom (a loan officer) who discovered that her childcare provider was drugging her children with cough medicine and Tylenol during the day, to keep them quite. Can you imagine? She immediately quit her job to stay home and care for her children. After reading Jude Deveraux’s book, Knight in Shining Armor, Brenda wondered if she could write a novel.
After writing and publishing over 50 novels, I think it’s safe to say, yes she can. Continue reading Books of My Life: Brenda Novak
Greetings my friends! I just got back from my road trip on Saturday (late) night and my head is spinning. I have so many thoughts and feelings to share. My fingers are itching for the keyboard, but they’ve sadly been very busy with the dials and buttons of my washing machine and dryer. I have many family stories to share and thoughts about everything we were lucky enough to experience. And of course, I also spent a lot of reading and listening to books. One of my favorites of the summer was The Two Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman. 
There are times when I read book that I feel as though the author wrote the story just for me. Allison Winn Scotch’s book, The Time of My Life (published in 2008), was one of those books. It really resonated with me – I couldn’t stop talking about it and bought a dozen copies as gifts. I loved the title, book cover, and the description of the story. I actually remember when I bought it (remember, I’m a book nerd). I had gift card for my birthday and I was very tired, because Cammy was still a baby. I was treating myself to a coffee and some Barnes and Noble time and remember reading the book’s blurb and feeling like, wow, this sounds like me. Researching Allison to write this intro – I realized that TTOYL was in fact published on my birthday! I love Jillian’s story and the questions about timing and fate and all the “what if’s” we ask ourselves when we feel like maybe this isn’t the life we’re supposed to have. Oh, but of course, it is. 
As many of you may know, I was once upon a time an aspiring romance novelist. I joined the Georgia chapter of RWA (Romance Writers of America) and attended their monthly meetings. The