Word Power

Aubergine St. Valentine loves her life as a best selling romance writer. At least she loved it until everything slid a little sideways.

Handsome husband. Check.

Sweet baby. Check.

Blinking cursor at the top of an empty page. Check.

Publisher? No check there.

New manuscript? No.

Time to retire? . . .

When does an author become an authority? Probably when she has a blank page and all her other books remaindered. Maybe when caftans are more becoming than hot pants. Maybe when you stand in front of a writer's workshop, no matter that it is in your own house, and the newbie writers in front of you expect to be amazed. When you don't have a work in progress. When the love of your life is a closet real estate investor adding to the list of buildings in his compound.