Hello, friends! I hope you’re enjoying the summer as much as I am.

First of all, I want to thank all of you who purchased The New Romance Cafe’s charity anthology, Stand for Ukraine. We exceeded our goal of $10,000.00 donated to Save the Children for the children of Ukraine. Our final total was $11,165.00. I’m so proud to have been a part of this book and can’t say enough good things about my friends at The New Romance Cafe.

I’ve had a great summer in my favorite town of Tryon, North Carolina. I started a weekly artists and writers coffee with some like-minded friends, beta tested a cool online romance writers’ course for a friend (there’s always more to learn!), and camped with friends on Grandfather Mountain at the Highland Games.

That mountain trip inspired me to write a Tryon Diary column (as Susan McNabb) for the Tryon paper.