National Novel Writing Month is my favorite time of year. It’s so energizing to try to write a lot of words (50,000) in a short period of time (30 days) with lots of other folks (about half a million). Are you going to NaNo with me this year? If so, please add me as a buddy and we can cheer each other on.

This year, I’ll be writing the first draft of the third Saywer’s Cove: The Reboot novel. You heard it here first–the title of this one is Take It All, and it’s a steamy forced proximity romance...