After the transporting experience of a month in New Zealand, last January (was it only five months ago?) we were plunged into a winter...

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....