UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · LARGE TYPE
Haywood Smith
My friend and fellow author Anju Gattani is helping me join the 21st century with my tweets and blogs. so you'll be hearing more from me in the future. I'm always open for questions from aspiring authors or people on low-sugar, gluten-free diets. Also, I'll keep you up on my life as a best-selling author. Most days, I get up at seven AM, then turn on the coffee, feed my three outside cats, then go to the mailbox for my paper. Then I eat a high-protein breakfast , so I can take a boatload of pills and supplements, then I do the Jumble and crossword puzzle to prime my brain for wordplay. Only then do I go to my office and do my e-mail, then start writing. On good days, I'll write for hours with no sense of time. On hard days, I'll sweat blood for every paragraph, but I can't afford to stop writing, even for a while, so I "write through" the rough spots, even though I know it's dreck. When I'm finally back in the groove, I can go back and fix the parts that don't flow. Usually, I work on my writing or the business end of career for eight to fourteen hours a day. (Welcome to the world of the self-employed.)
"Sweet Saint Margaret," Miriam swore, "he'll be a gout-ridden Scotsman with braids in his hair and beer on his breath."
— from Border lord
Most acclaimed
Highland princess
Lady Mairi Macdonald, daughter of the Lord of the Isles, and blessed in ways other women of her time never even dream of, is the kingdom's most sought-after bride. But no man has touched her heart, least of all the prince everyone expects her to wed. Then Lachlan "The Wily" Maclean, a Highland warrior with a network of spies that keeps him the most well-informed man in the kingdom, joins the Court of the Isles. He passionately wants Mairi, and although she scorns his impudent ways, she gasps at his touch...Accustomed to fighting for what he wants, Lachlan forms a daring plan to win her, only to ignite the jealousy of a powerful, implacable enemy who expects to win not only Mairi but the entire Kingdom of the Isles.
Damask rose
The Damask Rose takes readers to the mystical, magical Isle of Skye, in Scotland of 1430, where two clans, MacKay and MacDougald, have been engaged in a blood feud for years. As the story opens, it seems as though the MacDougalds have been defeated and young Tynan MacDougald, only eight years old, has been taken as a slave. But as the years pass the seeds of revenge are planted in his mind. When the laird of the clan discovers that he has a long-lost granddaughter, he offers a reward for anyone who can deliver her safely to him. Tynan will find this woman, Nara. But instead of delivering her to safety, he will kill her and get his revenge. What he doesn't count on is falling in love with her, and becoming torn between his newfound love and his blood oath to avenge his clan.
Out of warranty
Wanting to remarry when her health-care costs eat up all of her money, widow Cassie Jones enlists the grudging help of reclusive fellow patient Jack and devises a pragmatic but unconventional solution when dating proves unsuccessful.