Welcome to the July 4th Bloghop. On July 4th America celebrates it's birthday. As part of the celebration, stop by the 4TH OF JULY HOP PAGE where there's an awesome group of authors giving away hundreds of prizes. I will be giving away a copy of my debut novel Roses, a key chain and a plaque. (Pictured below.) All you have to do is leave a comment below and your email address. Good luck. There will be three winners! It’s that time of the year again. Summer is officially here and no one wants to sit in the house behind the computer writing. You know just as well as me that we will find one excuse after the other not to sit down and write…especially do revisions. Keeping this in mind, I came up with a writer’s summer survival tote. Pack your tote and keep it besides your pocketbook. Your tote should consist of the following: Notebook 2 Pens (This way there is no excuse that the pen ran out of ink.) A red pen and a yellow highlighter A white legal pad A box of ideas Post it...

Welcome to this weeks Tuesday Tales. I'd like to thank all my fans and followers. I can't tell you how happy I am that everyone is enjoying the adventures of Billy and Alexandra. Please stop by TUESDAY TALES to read the other wonderful tales by a group of talented authors. Alexandra opened the front door, thinking it was Billy. “Hello,” Alexandra said looking around. “Is anyone there?” Dropping her eyes, she spotted a bouquet of red roses sitting on the white Adirondack chair on the porch. Alexandra picked them up, smiling. Billy was always full of surprises. Lifting them off the chair she smelled them, before removing the card. It read: Meet me at the café. I have a huge surprise for you. Without thinking Alexandra walked into the kitchen and grabbed her pocketbook off the counter. While walking to the car, the card from the flowers fell from her hands. She was so excited to see what Billy had waiting for her at the café. She’d bet he went ahead and had the café a...

Welcome to this weeks Tuesday Tales. I'd like to thank all my fans and followers. I can't tell you how happy I am that everyone is enjoying the adventures of Billy and Alexandra. Please stop by TUESDAY TALES to read the other wonderful tales by a group of talented authors. The traffic was horrendous coming down two lane Richmond Hill Road, other wise known as Snake Hill to native Staten Islanders. Billy drove along the curves a little faster than he should have, causing his car to sway from side to side. There was no time to waste. He had to get back home to Alexandra before she realized he was gone. Along the way, he could have sworn that someone was following him. His paranoia was getting the better if him. He had called Angelo earlier, asking him if he was putting the squeeze on him. All Angelo did was laugh on the other end of the phone before hanging up. This had gotten totally out of control. He could have sworn the black BMW sedan behind him had tailed him...

Welcome to this weeks Tuesday Tales. This week, we're taking a different approach. We're using a picture prompt. Please take a few minutes to read the other delicious tales at: Tuesday Tales . My character Nikki Petrino from my debut novel Roses will stop by to give tell you her story. Nikki waited in the limousine for Drake. She couldn’t believe she was sitting in a black stretch limousine, a far cry from her old Toyota Corona, which just about ran. Drake dropped into her life eight years ago. When she went to Acapulco to start over again after the death of her husband, never did she expect to meet the love of her life on her first day there. Nikki grew up in a strict Italian Catholic household. Born in Brooklyn, she moved to Staten Island when she was a toddler. She had very little growing up and spent most of her free time at the family restaurant along with her brother, Rocco. It was her parents dream for Nikki and her brother to take over the family business. But Ni...

Welcome to this weeks edition of Tuesday Tales. This weeks word prompt is tree. Check out the other awesome tales at: Tuesday's Tale . Alexandra waited patiently for Billy to return. She wasn’t a fool. Something was going on that Billy was keeping from her. The minute he closed the front door, she was down the stairs looking for clues. Billy thought he was slick, but she read right through him. Off in the corner he had placed his over night bag. Quickly, she riffled through the bag looking for a clue. And then she came across the card. She pulled it out of the envelope, and typed in bold print read: SOMEBODY’S WATCHING YOU. “What’s this?” She held the card in her hand, turning it back and forth looking for something, a clue to where it came from. Now this is great. How can I approach Billy and ask him what this is. I should have never been going through his things. Alexandra placed it back where she found it. Well, she hoped she did. She wondered where Billy disappea...