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What's in a Name?
My recent return to Spain where I deepened my knowledge of the Spanish Inquisition gave me pause regarding the naming of the main...


A December Reckoning
It’s an early December day and I am 20 minutes into more than an hour’s walk in Nichols Arboretum near my home in Ann Arbor. I marvel...


August Reflections
Within the last month, the threat and then the certainty of losing siblings too young, followed fast with the sudden unexpected deaths of...


Something I Thought I'd NEVER do!
It’s a rainy last day in September and I am barreling up I-75 toward the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in a 27 foot RV. (Well, barreling...


Full Circle with Barbara Kingsolver
In 2010, I celebrated my 60th birthday by taking the recently completed manuscript of my first novel to the San Miguel Writers...

A Manuscript Finished, A Year Begun
Finishing a manuscript for a new book feels a little like the scene in the movie Ghost when the psychic Oda Mae Brown must exorcise the...


Benediction for a Novel
Since the debut last spring of my novel Even in Darkness, which is based on the unusual WWII survival story of my great aunt Kläre, I...


She Writes the Sisters- Meg Waite Clayton
I've been eagerly anticipating the release of Meg Waite Clayton’s The Race for Paris, a novel in the same WWII genre of historical...


When to Keep Secrets, When to Tell Truths
Thursday, September 24, Grand Rapids Public Library, Main Branch 7 PM. "Barbara will discuss the intricacies and challenges of writing...


The Foreword Eight!
Stop by Twitter, @bstarknemon on Thursday, Aug. 20 at 1:00 PM for 30 minutes of #debutauthor conversation with the @ForewordReviews...
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