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  • New Years Goals
    Happy New Year! I hope 2024 is off to a swinging start. Did you set any goals on January 1? Throughout my life I’ve had a shaky relationship with New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t love putting pressure on myself to make major changes in the dead of winter. On the Read Full Article
    Source: Allison BrennanPublished on 2024-01-04
  • More books! 
    It’s November 2023. And I’m delighted that I have two books being published this month: my 60th and 61st traditionally published novels! One was officially published on November 7. It’s my second Alaska Untamed Mystery for Crooked Lane Books, Cry Wolf, under my first pseudonym, Lark O. Jensen. Yes, I Read Full Article
    Source: Allison BrennanPublished on 2023-11-20
  • Creepy or Cute—What’s Your Halloween?
    My choice–Cute! So do you have a fond childhood memory of Halloween or fall in general you’d like to share? I know many people choose creepy. But I cherish happy memories of cheerful trick or treating as a child and with my children. And many people had similar memories. Here Read Full Article
    Source: Allison BrennanPublished on 2023-11-14
  • Why I Set Ruthless Enforcer in Portland
    Where you do you get your ideas? That is one of the most common questions I’ve been asked over my long career as a published author. Usually, I say everywhere and it’s true. However, when it comes to my latest release, Ruthless Enforcer, I got the idea for the setting Read Full Article
    Source: Allison BrennanPublished on 2023-11-03
  • Smile Like a Princess!
    Have you ever had to make it through a trying situation without showing your true feelings? Well, Jane Mercer has to do that all the time—especially throughout Princess Smile, the third book in my series, Truth, Lies, and Love in Advertising. Many have asked about the title. What does Princess Read Full Article
    Source: Allison BrennanPublished on 2023-10-10
  • Are you counting the days until October?
    Three cheers for September, because now we’re that much closer to October, when cooler weather and autumn colors (hopefully) arrive. The start of “sweater weather” makes me so happy! How about you? Are you a summer beach or an autumn person? I won’t ask you about winter—here in the Upper Read Full Article
    Source: Allison BrennanPublished on 2023-09-08
  • Falling In Love With Mafia Romance
    On Jan 3, 2023, I read my first mafia romance and I was hooked! Since then I have read hundreds and have a whole list of autobuy authors. What about these books is so intriguing, I keep looking for more like the first ones I read? Jayne Ann Krentz asked Read Full Article
    Source: Allison BrennanPublished on 2023-09-07
  • Burning Justice:  Behind the Scenes of a K-9 Romantic Suspense
    By Tee O’Fallon At this point in my writing career, I’ve got twelve books under my belt, nine of which are K-9 romantic suspense. Each presented me with new research challenges I never expected, especially the K-9 Special Ops series. Not having any medical training, Tough Justice, the first in Read Full Article
    Source: Allison BrennanPublished on 2023-08-24
  • Not something I planned to do…ever… 

    by Roxanne Rustand First of all, my newest release, DEADLY VENDETTA, is up for pre-order at a bargain price!  A quick blurb: DEA Agent Zach’s troubled sister disappeared years ago. Now she’s at his door, saying her little girl witnessed a murder, and says the killers are after them Read Full Article

    Source: Allison BrennanPublished on 2023-08-16
  • Writing Inspired by Readers & Travel
    Although I spend time with my writing friends several times a week, I don’t talk about my books as I’m writing them. One exception to this is HER GREEK BILLIONAIRE. I chatted with readers a ton about it before and during the process of writing it. Lysander is a Greek Read Full Article
    Source: Allison BrennanPublished on 2023-08-04
  • THE CREATIVE EDGE, now on Substack
    For years, I’ve been working behind the scenes on a project I’ve called jokingly Type, Drink, Loathe. Type, Drink, Loathe has been a part of my lexicon for more than a decade. It is the former title of a writing book that started in my Murderati days. Yes, I’m debating Read Full Article
    Source: JT EllisonPublished on 2023-03-30
  • A New Short Story For You – LOUCHE 49!
    the cover of the infinity anthology I’m so excited to share that my new short story, LOUCHE 49, in the Infinity Anthology, edited by Catherine Coulter and published by Suspense Magazine, is available today!LOUCHE 49 is a thrilling tale of revenge and redemption, following a female assassin—Tempeste Ranier—who Read Full Article
    Source: JT EllisonPublished on 2023-03-21
  • It's One Of Us Media Roundup
    This is an ongoing listing of the amazing conversations I’ve been having about IT’S ONE OF US, the reviews, the blurbs from some of the world’s finest authors. I hope you enjoy! Recognition
    Source: JT EllisonPublished on 2023-03-08
  • Release Day for It's One of Us!
    IT’S ONE OF US  is here at last!The germs of this story have been floating around in my brain for over a decade, sparked by one of those tragic-comedic life moments: my husband and I were in the middle of some rather grueling fertility treatments. One fateful day, he was Read Full Article
    Source: JT EllisonPublished on 2023-02-21
  • Release Day for These Cold Strangers
    These Cold Strangers book covers on a treelined foggy background I could not be more excited to share that my short story, THESE COLD STRANGERS, is now available from Amazon Originals! What’s so fun is this is a part of a themed collection called We Could Be Heroes, Read Full Article
    Source: JT EllisonPublished on 2023-02-07