Rebecca J. Clark's Blog

Well, it’s been a long time coming. I published Lead-Off Bride in 2015 with every intention of writing books 2 and 3 soon after. Nope. Life kicked me in the teeth, and I went on a 10-year hiatus from publishing. I was writing, just not finishing anything (but that could be a whole new blog post…).

But now the series is complete! Designated Bride released last month, and Walk-Off Bride releases July 23 (it’s available to pre-order now). I loved writing Tara and Nate’s story — I miss them already. When you spend every day for MONTHS with characters, they become your friends. I know I’ll fall in love with the characters in my next book, but right now, I don’t even want to think about them LOL. Just Nate and Tara.

Minor league coach Nate Navarro has one last shot to save his career—and maybe himself. After a messy divorce and a string of public outbursts cost him his major-league job and alienated his kids, all he wants is his old life back. Now he’s stuck coaching a minor-league team while a documentary crew lurks in the shadows, hoping to catch him at his worst. When the team’s owner forces yoga therapy into his routine, Nate is furious. Even worse? The instructor is Tara Sanders—a gorgeous, sharp-witted yogi who wants nothing to do with him.

Tara has spent years rebuilding her life after a public scandal shattered her trust in men—and the media. Between teaching yoga and running I Do-Overs, a wedding dress consignment shop she owns with her sisters, she’s surrounded by love stories but has no interest in starring in one herself. But when she’s asked to take the yoga program on the road, Tara agrees to step in and travel with the team—strictly as a professional. She’s there to do a job, not get caught in the outfield with a man who’s clearly all wrong for her.

When sparks turn to something deeper and their pasts come roaring back, they’ll have to decide if the life they’re chasing is really the one they want—or if the love they never saw coming is the one worth fighting for.

After a LONG hiatus, I have a new book out. Well, almost out. Designated Bride (Book 2 in Take Me Out to the Wedding series) is available to pre-order. It comes out June 4, 2025. It’ll also be available on Kindle Unlimited.

Welcome to Twin Rivers, Washington—a charming small town that’s home to the Rapids minor league baseball team and I Do-Overs, a wedding consignment shop on Main Street.

Susie Sanders, owner of I Do-Overs, believes the perfect dress always finds the bride—and when it does, Mr. Right isn’t far behind. So when a stunning gown arrives at her shop just as she’s sure she’s found the one—a sweet, steady guy she’s been casually dating—Susie takes it as a sign. But then Kyle Blaylock walks in. Cocky, charming, and all wrong for her in every way, the high-powered sports agent throws everything off balance. She’s already picked the dress and the groom… so why does her heart feel like it’s swinging for Kyle?

For Kyle Blaylock, the off-season is anything but a break—it’s packed with trades, contract negotiations, and scouting new talent. Romance isn’t even in the lineup. Between dealing with his estranged father and managing his star-studded roster, the last thing Kyle needs is to be benched by a hopeless romantic who believes in fairy tales. Yet, no matter how hard he tries to stay focused, Kyle keeps finding himself drawn back to Twin Rivers—and to Susie, the one woman who’s completely out of his league.

In the game of love, even the best-laid plans can lead to an unexpected happily ever after.

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Last year, a writer I follow on social media (Sean McCabe) livestreamed himself attempting to write a 100,000-word book in ONE day. When the email popped up in my inbox with the subject line: “How I’m preparing to write 100,000 words in a day,” my first thought was, “Yeah, right.” My second thought was, “How is that even possible?” although I suspected I knew how he planned to accomplish this amazing feat.

I opened the email to learn more, and I was right—he planned to dictate his novel, and planned for it to take him about 12-16 hours. Damn. My voice box aches just thinking about talking for that long.

While he ultimately wasn’t able to write that many words in one day (he actually got about 55k), he wrote way more via dictation than he could possible write via keyboard.

This got me thinking.

I’ve been fascinated with the idea of dictating a book for some time now. When I first heard about it, I had no idea how to even go about dictating. I had the old-fashioned idea of speaking into a recorder, then sending it to some service to transcribe it.

Oh, no, no, no. That is SO last decade. Enter Dragon software (There are other options, but this is the one I’m familiar with). You speak into a recorder, open up the software, and download the audio file into Dragon. And voila! It magically transcribes your spoken words into written words onto the screen. You can also speak into a microphone on your computer, and talk instead of type right onto the screen.

Sounds great. But does it work?

I have no idea if it’ll work for me. In fact, I have no idea the exact logistics, because I haven’t actually tried it for myself. But I know others who have.

One friend dictates while hiking, and writes the majority of her books that way. Another friend writes all her business emails via dictation while riding her stationary bike. And yet another friend writes all her blog posts via dictation. I’ve read books by Chris Fox (5000 Words a Day: Writer Faster, Write Smarter) and Monica Leonelle (Dictate Your Book: How to Write Your Book Faster, Better and Smarter) and both say it totally changed their writing careers. They went from writing maybe 1k words an hour to 5k an hour or even more. Or…like crazy Sean McCabe mentioned earlier…50k in a day. (Ouch. I need a lozenge…)

I’ve heard there’s a big learning curve. You have to record yourself reading several pages of script into the software so it can learn the nuances of your voice. You have to learn how to speak the punctuation (Period. Comma. New Paragraph, etc.) And it supposedly takes a while to learn how to “write out loud.”

As luck or coincidence would have it, one of my clients recently gave me an box of Dragon Software that he’d never used. Considering I’d never even mentioned dictation to him, I took this as a sign that I should try it. I bought a tiny recorder and a microphone headset, so I’m ready to go.

Wish me luck. I’ll keep you posted on my results.

Contains TWO complete books and TWO complete novellas. All are stand-alone stories with no cliffhangers:

1. BORROWED STILETTOS (Audrey and Zach’s story)

2. RUNNING in STILETTOS (Ava and Rod’s story)

3. DANCING in STILETTOS (Darlene and Colton’s story)

4. CHRISTMAS in STILETTOS (Francie and Dylan’s story)

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What would you do…?

It’s Halloween, around midnight. A pounding storm has knocked out power and phone lines. It’s just you and your very pregnant wife living in an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, too far out to get a cell phone signal. No other homes around for miles. Someone knocks on your door–a young woman–and needs your help. She wants to come inside to get out of the storm.

Would you help her? Would you let her inside?

The wrong decision could be deadly…

Her One-Night Prince is a Cinderella story about a woman’s dream to be someone she’s not at her class reunion.

As all fairy tales go, happy endings don’t come easily. Shy and sheltered Lydia St. Clair is awkward around men, so she advertises for a gay man to be her date and revamp her style. Mitch Gannon answers Lydia’s ad, and he’s perfect for the job–he’s handsome and, even more important, he’s charming.

Unbeknownst to Lydia, Mitch is straight and answered the ad as the unwitting target of a practical joke. Before he can reveal the truth, Lydia is convinced he’s her fairy godmother, ready to transform her into the belle of the ball. Mitch, prince that he is, doesn’t have the heart to set her straight.

Once upon a time, he promised her the moon. It’s time to deliver.

Louisa D’Angelo used to believe in happily ever after—until the tragic death of her son and the demise of her marriage. Now, five years later, with her life back in order, she has a great career and a wonderful man in her life. So what if the passion and excitement isn’t there? In her book, passion and excitement only lead to heartbreak. Then, her ex-husband shows up and upsets her tidy little world.

Gabe D’Angelo never believed in happily ever after—until he met Louisa who taught him how to love and be loved. But their happiness was short-lived. Guilt and grief forced Gabe to walk away. Now, though he’s pulled his life together and should be happy, he realizes something’s missing. After seeing her from afar at a family wedding, he knows what it is. It’s Louisa.

The problem is convincing her she’s still in love with him.

Haunted by a tragic accident 20 years ago, John Everest knows he doesn’t deserve a family of his own, so he spends his days building the most successful fitness franchise in Seattle…and his nights alone. But that all changes when Samantha Rossi storms back into his life.

Happily single, Samantha feels there are only two types of men in this world: those who are good for nothing and those who are good for one thing. Now she needs that one thing desperately, because she wants a baby. John, a man from her past, is the perfect donor. He doesn’t want children. He doesn’t want a wife. He just wants her body. She can deal with that.

John agrees to Samantha’s no-strings-attached proposal, never expecting to fall for the fiery beauty he’d wronged so many years ago. It’ll take more than a shameless proposal to overcome their tragic past, but with a little luck and forgiveness, anything is possible.

SHAMEFUL tells the prologue of SHAMELESS in Samantha’s point of view. It can be read before or after reading SHAMELESS. Sammy Jo was a good girl and always played by the rules. Okay, maybe that makes her a little boring. But tonight, she was breaking out of her shell. She was sneaking out of her house and going to a college party with her best friends. So what if her instincts told her she was making a big mistake? Instincts aren’t always right, are they?