A first-time author's rite of passage: her cover on a cake!
After my first signing, my friends threw me a party and my
husband arranged for the special cake. Thanks, everyone!

In NYC for RWA11 with Angie Fox, Lynn Cahoon, and Laura Bradford.

Some of the MORWA friends who keep me sane.
L to R: me, Lynn Cahoon, JC Hay, Angie Fox, AJ Brower, Jeannie Lin,
Amanda Berry, Claudia Shelton, Shawntelle Madison,
Maggie Mae Gallagher, Wendy Drew and Kimberly Killion.

The romance trading card for The Marriage Solution.
Giving it out at conferences as a collectible for fans.

Signing with the fabulous Eileen Dreyer
at Rose's Bookhouse in O'Fallon, MO, in May 2011.

No, really, the RWA National conference is hard work!
This is the day before it started with Regan Loyd, Kimberly Killion
and a couple of other famous friends.

Here I am with Laura Marie Altom, who writes for Harlequin American,
at the 2010 RWA Literacy for Life book signing in Orlando.

At the Harlequin party with Barbara Daley and Laura Bradford,
fellow HAR authors.

Jeannie Lin, Amanda Berry and me at the Harlequin party
2009 RWA conference, Washington DC

2009: Missouri Romance Writers of America turns 25!

2008 RWA Conference in San Francisco
Angie Fox, Kimberly Killion and me.

RWA 2008 San Francisco conference:
Pam Trader, Eileen Dreyer, me, Regan Loyd, and Kimberly Killion.

Some writing friends made my first booksigning event even more special!
Here I am with Christine Cannon, Kimberly Killion and Annmarie McKenna.