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 [...]

My Saturday blog this week will be a Sunday evening post, because I'm going to a special event... a Romance Writers' Tea Party! Will share details with you tomorrow evening! This week, the cover for my December book came out, and I think it's beautiful! See it on Amazon, where it's up for pre-order, and [...]

For years, especially in the summers when the kids were home from school, I dreamed of being away from everyone to be able to write--alone. Anyone who's a mom trying to work at home knows the feeling--the constant interruptions, the steady in-and-out of people. Even the pets can be annoying. It grates on you after [...]

Star Trek turned fifty this week! As a diehard trekkie from the age of twelve, I couldn't let this anniversary go by without trying to put into words what Star Trek (still) means to me after all these years.  I was just a young geeky teen when reruns from the 60’s show were on TV [...]

I love reading historical romances and novels. Actually, I wrote four historical romances (two Regency and two Victorian) and a Jane Austen short story before I got published. But I was not a natural at it for sure! I spent so many hours stopping the writing and then researching everything from the types of teacups [...]