SPICE AND SECRETS Release Day! Excerpt + Giveaway

Hurrah! Yay! Taali bajao! It’s finally here: release day for Spice and Secrets, my second story from Samhain Publishing. To celebrate, I have a giveaway (you have to scroll to the end…muhahahaha) and a never-before-seen excerpt, featuring tormented heroine Priya Roy and her leading man, Rahul Anand, in close quarters…

Spicy Saturday: SPICE AND SECRETS cast

When you're writing a series set in Bollywood, it only makes sense that real-life actors are going to float in and out of your consciousness. The closer I got to finishing Spice and Secrets, the more clearly I could see specific actors and actresses embodying the roles of my four principals.

Meet my dream cast for the story!

Kicking the Heroine Addiction

I recently had a note about one of my female leads not engaging in “heroine-like” behavior. It’s a common thing that comes up in Romancelandia, from editors and reviewers alike: Your heroine’s not acting like a heroine, your hero’s not acting like a hero. How much are we, as writers and readers, hamstrung by those words and their meanings? “Heroine.” “Hero.” At the core, they imply courage, nobility, feats that are somehow more than human. And I don’t know about anybody else, but I tend to write about guys that are clueless doofuses and gals who are, at best, a hot mess. They’re not noble, they’re not brave and you’re not supposed to look up to them. You might not even like them. They’re just people. They’re flawed, and it’s strange to have them held up to a higher standard just because they’re trying to navigate the pitfalls of love.