Older women...younger men?

What is the attraction?

Most of the men I date are younger :-)  Why?  I'm not sure.  It just seems to be the way the cookie crumbles for me.   Several of my friends also date younger vs older men.  Do I consider myself a cougar...no.  I'm not rich enough or old enough (and don't ask me my age.)

My guest this week on Romancing the Pen, Morgan K. Wyatt, discusses her latest book Puppy Love.

Drop by and chat with us and let us now what you think about older women and younger men.

Theo decides to give up on love when she catches her sister in bed with her husband. Instead of blaming her sister or her husband, she blames herself, divorces her husband, distances herself from her sister, and shuts her heart to love.

Her son inadvertently pushes her back into the dating game when he drops off his puppy, Ollie, as he heads out to deployment abroad. He fails to inform her that the puppy isn’t even close to being trained or even somewhat obedient.

Ollie brings the dating-phobic Theo into contact with Westvale’s hottest bachelor, Dr. Brent Knight. Despite her best friend Lorna’s urging to go after him, Theo hangs back due the eleven year age gap and her past romantic history, but it doesn’t stop Ollie from barreling ahead.

Character Inspiration

Orlando Bloom, actor

Rules for writing fiction

As written for The Guardian by Andrew Motion, poet and novelist.


1 Decide when in the day (or night) it best suits you to write, and organise your life accordingly.

2 Think with your senses as well as your brain.

3 Honour the miraculousness of the ordinary.

4 Lock different characters/elements in a room and tell them to get on.

5 Remember there is no such thing as nonsense.

6 Bear in mind Wilde's dictum that "only mediocrities develop" – and ­challenge it.

7 Let your work stand before deciding whether or not to serve.

8 Think big and stay particular.

9 Write for tomorrow, not for today.

10 Work hard.

Pavarti K. Tyler and Shadow on the Wall

Visit Romancing the Pen to read an excerpt from Pavarti K. Tyler's latest work Shadow on the Wall.

BLURB:   Recai Osman: Muslim, philosopher, billionaire and Superhero?

Controversial and daring, Shadow on the Wall details the transformation of Recai Osman from complicated man to Superhero. Forced to witness the cruelty of the Morality Police in his home city of Elih, Turkey, Recai is called upon by the power of the desert to be the vehicle of change. Does he have the strength to answer Allah’s call or will his dark past and self doubt stand in his way?

Pulling on his faith in Allah, the friendship of a Jewish father-figure and a deeply held belief that his people deserve better, Recai Osman must become The SandStorm.

In the tradition of books by Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie, Shadow on the Wall tackles issues of religion, gender, corruption and the basic human condition. Beautiful and challenging, this is not a book to miss.

Treasuring Creativity

Okay, I could barely finish reading the post of my guest this week without visualizing my treasure.  As a child, how did you save the things that were important to you?  How did you protect them?  How often did you go to those little treasures and touch, hold, or daydream about them.

This post inspired me to dust off my box and maybe add a few items.

Drop by Romancing the Pen, and read more about my guest--Lizzie Starr--and her box of treasure.

Just when Bryce decides to give up looking for the masked dancer who captured his heart and get on with his life, his darlin’ daughter climbs onto the lap of a captivating woman in a coffee shop and calls her Mommy. He certainly wouldn’t mind exploring the possibility.


Carrie’s vacation is over. Although she loves her job, she dreads returning. Especially when a blonde-haired cherub insists she’s ‘Mommy’. Add the girl’s intriguing father, and Carrie believes she’s finally ready for a real relationship. But memories of a horrific attack surface, bringing doubt and fear.


Then one of Bryce’s fathers is kidnapped by a cult. Not knowing if the abduction was of human or Fey origin, Bryce must chance seeming crazy and losing Carrie with tales of the Faerie Otherworld. Dare he take her to Faerie and declare his love—or are the forces aligning against them too much to overcome?

Paris anyone?

I've traveled to a number of different countries, but I've never been to Paris, France.  It's on my list, and I truly hope to visit one day, but it seems my guest this week at Romancing the Pen loves Paris as much as I love Rome. (The stories I could tell.)

Join me and my guest as we discuss her latest book, Artful Dodging.

She might make you want to renew your passport, if you already haven't.

Blurb:

Waiting out the rain, Milo Everhart takes stock of her widowhood and the handsome man standing in the door to the bar.  Little does she know she will meet that man again and again under both passionate and terrifying circumstances.

Tristram Brody waits for his date, too conscious of the beautiful woman sitting by the door. Little does he know that she will hate him for trying to destroy her beloved art center, and even suspect him of murder. Nor that she will be drawn inevitably into his arms.

Little does either of them suspect they will be embroiled in not one, but two murders, in which the fate of the Torpedo Factory, an art center housed in an old munitions factory on the waterfront in Old Town Alexandria, will be decided.

Character Inspiration

Patrick Wilson, actor