One of the most delightful and unexpected aspects of the author life I now lead are the relationships I have developed with other authors....

By now, many of my readers and anyone who knows me well have learned that I love book research, and in the course of my five years of...

Author Jodi Wright’s debut novel, How to Grow an Addict offers a cautionary though inspiring tale about a clever but vulnerable young...

When I retired twelve years ago, the top item on my bucket list was to write a novel, but my top TRAVEL bucket list choice was New...

What happens when a writer embarks on a bucket-list trip to far away New Zealand for a month of sightseeing, visiting (author) friends,...

Today my father would have been 100 years old— a staggering thought, not only because of the weight a century bears, but because his...

A reader of my novel, Hard Cider, commented in a review that I had “deftly crafted descriptions that span all seasons as they move...

The “back end” of publishing- the publicity, marketing, and book events that happen just before, and long after a book’s publication date...

I keep running across blog posts and articles on the topic of older women. Most decry the fading of everything from bodies to influence....

With thanks to Story Circle Network, for publishing this piece in their 2018 anthology Real Women Write, Having grown up with a mother...