"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 [...]