Jill Blake

Interiority is what your characters are thinking and feeling. It's that inside peek into their psyche--how they react to the dead body in the parlor, not just that they found it.

When it comes to writing, I'm inevitably drawn to cozies. I like the lighter tone of cozy mysteries, infused with humor and romance and quirky characters. That's what I tried to write. What came out was...a little bit different.

From a doctor, mom, and would-be writer May 2021 Fourteen months into the Covid pandemic, I am finally returning to writing. Why so long?...

Is work-life balance really a myth? Well...yes, and no. Here's what I've learned from my years as a physician, mom, and writer...

I'm in the process of doing edits for my latest book, Oh, Baby!--yes, that's the title, peeps, not just my enthusiasm bursting through....

By nature, humans are competitive creatures. Think about sports, politics, awards shows. We try to impress upon our children that it’s...

Readers always ask where I get my ideas. With my latest book, The Burnout Cure, I didn’t have far to look. While Wolf, Lily, and the characters who inhabit their world are fictional, the issues of physician burnout, depression, and suicide are very real—as are the sobering statistics that Lily quotes about how many physicians are affected. The first seeds of this story were planted back when I was a young doctor-in-training. As Lily, the heroine of The Burnout Cure descri

For older posts, please visit Jill's blog The Heart of It: Contemporary Romance in a Digital Age on Blogspot.