Anniversary Party - The Entertainment

If Skylar thinks she's bad at planning seating arrangements, she's not had my experience with planning entertainment. At my wedding...

Anniversary Party--The Guest List/Seating Arrangements

I got roped into cataloging the guest list and determining the seating arrangements for said attendees. Allow me to preface by saying that t...

Anniversary Party -- The Hall

Star-Crossed Romance has been together for a year now. How wonderful is that? :D To that end, we’re celebrating our first year anniversary w...

Being Mom

If Kat took the not-so-serious approach to this theme, then I'm taking the backward approach. Rather than talking about having a mom, I ...

Moooooooommmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyy

Leave it to me to do the tribute that is not very serious. I'm sorry, but I just can't. I'm not built that way. But I blame my m...

Lessons From Mom

My mother and I have a funny relationship. We are both very territorial, so consequently, we get along better when we've got a little d...

The Mothers In My Life

It took me all of two seconds to recall the first mother I wrote. But a few minutes longer to call up the old manuscript she appeared in via...

In Memory of my Mom.

My mom passed away several years ago but I can still hear her, still see her in my mind's eye. She was a natural red head, blue eyes, da...

My Mum - a Mothers Day tribute

It's Mothers day Down Under on Sunday the 13th of May. I'm not sure if Mothers Day falls on the same day in other parts of the world...

Backlist Bonanza Book of the Week

I'm having a Bonanza! Each week I'm choosing one of my books to highlight. I'm starting off with my first published story: For m...

I'm A Writer, So Why Am I So Poor???

My husband is going to kill me if he ever reads this post. But since having that happen is as miraculous as the Second Coming, I think I...

There Be Castles in My Hometown!

I don't know about the rest of you, but I've had a fascination for fairy tales since I was a child. Maybe it's my mom's faul...

Contest Win!

I found out Thursday I'd placed second in the Polar Passions Contest sponsored by the Alaskan RWA Chapter. Of course, I knew I'd ent...

Announcing....

I've been busy with a kazillion things so haven't had a chance to think about an article for the blog. Mea culpa. However, I thought...

Inspiration

One of the things I love and hate about being a writer is that just about everything gives me ideas. They come at me from all directions all...

Soul of a Hunter excerpt

My heroines tend to be the tortured characters, rather than the heroes . But it's the heroes who stand by their side when the going get...

Explore Infinite Worlds!

Bernadette's first print anthology is now available! Infinite Worlds by Bernadette Gardner ISBN-13: 978-1-60272-998-8 (Paperback) Genres...

ZOMG WOW!

I checked my calendar this morning and wanted to kick myself because I missed my blog day (in my defense, it was Kindergarten Registration d...

Rescue Vous?

While driving home over the mountains and through the woods with the radio off (and praying for all I was worth my car would survive the tri...

My favorite topic - heroes

I’m an avid Red Wings Hockey fan. I love watching the boys and especially now in the playoffs, it’s a real treat. I don’t care if they win o...

Cyber Stress

I've always felt I'm a little before my time. Since I was a kid I thought of myself as Future Girl, sort of caught living in the pas...

Excerpt Time!

Well, it's theme week again here at Star-Crossed, and this week's theme is a random paged excerpt. I chose my excerpt from page 14 ...

Random Page!

Hi all! The theme this week - Random Page. So here is a page from my Latest release, Love's beguiling Healer. First, this is the blurb o...