How's your holiday stress? Hope not too crazy. This week, I did a fun post over at The Romance Dish about the first time I had dinner with my husband's family. It might make you laugh! You can view it here.  Hope you have a wonderful holiday with your family. Back to my edits and holiday [...]

This post is part of a Christmas blog hop initiated by my friend, historical author Marin McGinnis! Read an excerpt of my brand new release CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU on her Dec. 8th blog and check it out every day this month to discover some great new authors! Thanks for including me, Marin! *  *  * The other [...]

Just a quick note to say that many things are happening during the week ahead! --CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU releases Tuesday, December 6th. It's an emotional second-chance love story about love, loss, friendship, family, and one woman's journey to confront her past so she can move on to her future. I hope you'll check it [...]

"What dessert shall I make for tonight?" I innocently said to my husband before our friends came over a few weeks ago. As I pretended to contemplate the options...cake, cookie bar, blah blah blah,...he remained engrossed in reading. So then I pulled out the stops. "Maybe I'll make an apple pie." He instantly looked up and got [...]

Katharine Ashe speaking to the writers of NEORWA (Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America). This week I had the great adventure of attending the fabulous event Avon KissCon in Cleveland, where eight amazing Avon authors spoke to the public in a panel and also took part in a smaller reception that many of my writer [...]

My 19 yr. old is a fan of a local drive-up place where they serve burgers right to your car via a tray they stick in your window. Every time my son comes home from college, he heads there with his friends (usually late at night) and returns telling me in stomach-rumbling detail about the [...]

I wanted to tell you about a fun Trick-or-Treat giveaway going on on my Facebook author page this weekend. I got early copies of my December book this week (yay!) and I'm giving one away along with a mug and some other swaggy things. Enter the giveaway here. (Giveaway goes until Monday, October 31st, at [...]

My 24-year-old daughter unexpectedly joined me at the New Jersey Romance Writers Author-Reader Luncheon last weekend. She drove up to New Jersey from Philadelphia, where she attends grad school. I must confess, at first I told her not to come. "I'm too busy," I said. This was really a cover for--I'm not sure how I [...]

Most of us who love books have a story about how we first came to love them.   My mom was a huge reader, but we didn’t have a lot of money to buy books. But she was constantly hauling us off to the library. That was the only way I knew of to get [...]

Today I attended an author tea in celebration of my friend historical romance author Louise Bergin's recent Regency Romance release, The Spinster and the Wastrel. This wasn't any old tea party...it was...well, amazing. There was tea in beautiful antique cups, a gorgeous rosetted cake that was purple on the inside as well as out, fabulous [...]