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All About Jo Robertson

Like many writers, I penned my first story at a young age. However, a family and a teaching career put my writing dreams on hold until my Advanced Placement seniors conned me into writing my first complete manuscript. That story, which subsequently won RWA's Golden Heart Award in 2006, was THE WATCHER.

From the moment I put my fingers to the keyboard, the
barrier between my brain and the paper lifted, the story flew from my mind, and I fell in love with everything about the process of writing.

Raised as an Army brat, I lived in Germany as a child, Northern Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Idaho, and Utah before finally settling in Northern California. Whenever I visit my sister in Virginia or my brothers in North Carolina and Florida, upon returning home I remember again why I love Northern California, home of the ancient redwoods, the fecund forests and the rugged Pacific coastline.


If Only Dickens Had Social Media …

Charles Dickens is arguably one of the world’s greatest English writers, right up there with Shakespeare.  We remember him best for his vivid characters, along with the subtext of social commentary in his stories. But the characters – that’s what got me hooked on Dickens when I was a young reader.  Other than “A Christmas Carol,” my first encounter with the writer was freshman year in high school when we read “Great Expectations.”  How I loved being at the graveyard on the moors with Pip when Magwitch accosts him.  Especially the part when he threatens the young boy with the
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The Spirit Is Indeed Willing — A LIVELY LAUNCH

The entire biblical quote from Matthew 26:41 (King James Version): “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” I’m not particularly religious, but I borrowed the phrase “weak flesh” from these biblical words for the title of my newly released historical thriller WEAK FLESH.  Note that the book is a ROMANTIC historical thriller in which I try to balance the mystery-thriller thread with the romantic thread, but like all romances, WEAK FLESH the promise of a happy ever after for the main characters. I found the concept of the spirit
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Another Winner!!!

The winner from Jo’s blog on “Shipping and “Shippers” is . . . Pissenlit!!!!                Congratulations.  Provide your email addy and your choice of which of my downloads you’d like, Pissenlit.  Send to jo.lewisrobertson@yahoo.com    


  • Seven Nights in a Rogue's Bed
  • On Her Side
  • The Mammoth Book of Ghost Romance
  • Unraveling the Past
  • The Casanova Code
  • BBS cover
  • One Book in the Grave
  • sex, lies and valentines
  • Pages of Sin
  • sex lies and midnight
  • sex lies and mistletoe
  • Out of Sight
  • Deadly Little Lies
  • The Avenger
  • THe Watcher
  • Redeeming the Rogue
  • How to Seduce a Billionaire
  • Feels Like Home
  • Heiress in Love
  • Money Shot
  • Dangerous Kisses
  • One Night Scandal
  • Murder Under Cover
  • The Prodigal Son
  • Just for the Night
  • Midnight's Wild Passion
  • Living in Color
  • The Surrender of Lacy Morgan
  • Breaking the Rules
  • A Marine for Christmas
  • Elly: Cowgirl Bride
  • Scandal of the Season
  • Winter Longing