Los Angeles. Hmmm . . . movie industry, bright lights, famous actors, wannabes and scriptwriters . . . There's something about LA that made this award particularly special. And c'mon , no author writes a book without thinking about how it might look as a movie and who might play those parts: Especially romance (Ryan Gosling? Please, pretty please). Suffice to say, winning the Los Angeles book award felt a bit like an Olympic gold medal. The book was judged by a panel of publ

Another day, another award. Sigh. It's just so tedious how people keep giving The Refusal these things . . . hahaha. Being serious for a second though, this will never stop being a thrill and the Eve Riley household is very excited about possible trips and presentations we might attend. The recognition for the book that I spent so long writing, editing and publishing is wonderful. However, the amount of pressure it's creating for book two is immense. I am spending most of my