As you now know after reading my most recent Soulmate Press Blog Posts, I am a recovering blocked writer. After nearly a year of a research project for work, requiring a lot of time, travel and energy, I was unable to write fiction, and starting to believe I might never be able to finish another novel,

Taking writing classes helped, as well as putting away the Urban Fantasy manuscript that required more research and more energy than I had. I started to write in a new genre (for me), a Contemporary Western Romance. It could also be considered Women’s Fiction with Romantic Elements. That’s because I write what I know, and I am deeply involved and passionate about current events with my nonfiction as well. And since childhood, have loved everything to do with cowboys, cowgirls, and horses.

I’m trying not to get derailed by what this novel is. I…