

Tips to write more today and after NANO
Not sure I'm doing NANO this year but I found this blog and I'm repurposing it today. :) Novel Writing month is an annual event for...


Release week - A Very Mummy Holiday
Non-traditional holidays - it's kind of my thing. I've spent several Thanksgivings on the road or with friends rather than family.  Of...


New York state of mind...
As a teenager, I talked my mom into sending me on a history tour. NYC, DC, Colonial Williamsburg, and Philadelphia were all on the list...


Home Sunday
I do a home Sunday post on my FB author page weekly. Mostly talking about how I spend my time on my few free weekends. Talking about food...


New release - Jewel of the Bayou - Lynn Collins
What’s love got to do with it? Uhmm, everything? As a genre, romance fiction gets a bad rap.  From being called bodice rippers to porn,...


Unplugging - kind of...
I took a few days off last week to go camping at Branson, MO.  It's a tourist trap of a different kind. Here, there's a lot of music...


Making a bucket list?
I was in the Cleveland area this week (crazy traffic). I knew I was near one of the great lakes when I was planning the route at least...


Are you freaking kidding me? It's September?
This year has seemed to fly by. January didn't start well with losing two of our fur family within weeks of each other. The house was too...


Corn, it's what's for dinner...
Or at least it's in my head this last month. I just got back from Iowa. Beautiful farm country. Lot's of corn fields by the side of the...


The Sweet Smell of Summer
This essay was the first thing I'd ever had published besides a review of a dinner theater show for my local paper. The Sweet Smell of...
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