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ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
where fear and passion collide
Debora Dale Alt logo
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
where fear and passion collide
Pre-Covid Memories

Pre-Covid Memories

Family life, New York

A few years ago, for Mother’s Day, we took my mother-in-law to the New York Botanical Gardens. As an artist whose paintings of flowers are as vivid as anything we could ever see at the gardens, she was thrilled and said it was one of the Mother’s Day memories...
Book Birthday!

Book Birthday!

Writing

Happy Book Birthday Surrender at Canyon Road! My debut novel, a contemporary romantic suspense, is officially celebrating it’s one-year book birthday today. Since it’s release, Surrender at Canyon Road has been out there, in the wild, surviving and...
Surrender to Coloring

Surrender to Coloring

Random, Writing

To celebrate the first-year Book Birthday of my debut novel, I thought I’d share a little something that I’ve enjoyed during these past several months. Adult coloring. How it Started I received my first adult coloring book and a few colored pencils as a gift that I...
There won’t be trumpets

There won’t be trumpets

Creating Characters, Plotting, Writing

There are heroes in the world, wrote Stephen Sondheim in the song There Won’t Be Trumpets. Princes and heroes in the world; and one of them will save us…wait and see, wait and see. That hopeful promise was followed by a warning: There won’t be...
Déjà vu

Déjà vu

Writing

One of the more compelling Twitter hashtags for me is #vss365, which invites followers to write a ‘very short story” and includes a daily prompt. Yesterday’s prompt was “nightfall”. Isn’t that a great word? For me, it conjures all...