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:: Story Excerpts and Articles ::
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Naturally Nate inspiration
For Naturally Nate, I see
Rosario Dawson as
conservative Farrah
Yancey, the young woman
determined to keep Nate's
pants on...in public!











      


























Crazy In Love (Formerly called Tru Lee Stellar) - I wrote this for two different reasons.  I
had seen that the rapper Jay-Z and singer of Destiny's Child, Beyonce, were a couple.  
Although Jay-Z is a gifted rapper, he's not much to look at, so I wanted to write a story that
would explain that pairing.  How does someone like Beyonce love a guy like Jay-Z?  Then I
watched VH-1's "Behind the Music" about Tim McGraw and I dropped that idea and instead
wrote a romance between someone who looked like Beyonce and a hero who looked like
Tim McGraw.

Naturally Nate - Now posted! The first chapter!
Story Excerpts:
Short stories:
"Electrifying" a 10-Minute Love Story accepted by The Sun Magazine and
based on the electric utility world.

"Great Pretender" a 10-Minute Love Story accepted by The Sun Magazine.
Articles:
"The 'Real' Contest World" - Romance Divas website October/November
2004

"What TV Can REALLY Teach You About Writing Romance" - Chesapeake
Romance Writers' November 2004 E-Peake News Special

"TV:  Okay, Now Turn It Off!" Cheapeake Romance Writers' February 2005
E-Peake Newsletter and Virginia Romance Writers' March 2005 Novel Ideas
Newsletter.
Gray's Anatomy -
Available now through New Concepts Publishing
e-book:  ISBN 1-58608-932-2

Reviews

"I read someplace that, 'Description should begin in the writer's imagination
and end in the reader's.' This has been done successfully in Gray's
Anatomy." ~Pam Fiscarella, editor-in-chief from Medallion Press
Kissing Casanova -
Available now through New Concepts Publishing
e-book:  ISBN 1-58608-869-6
print:  ISBN 1-58608-833-5

It's a romance about what happens when a spoiled
socialite and a professional wrestler are put together
for a week.

REVIEWS
The only man who could
play ruggedly handsome if
not stubborn Nate Hickson
in Naturally Nate is the
terminally handsome Hugh
Jackman!
Revamped - Coming soon through New Concepts Publishing's Harmony
Line

"...very fresh and original -- something that I would personally pick up and
read if it were found on a bookstore shelf."
--Allison S., Romance Junkies Writing Contest

Reviews