After 4+ years of roller coaster ups and downs, we finally adopted our 6 1/2 year old, Angela, on Friday. There wasn't much fanfare. It...

Heck, I'm on a book buying spree these days! I've bought about half a dozen Kindle books, and I just purchased two native landscaping and...

Deals on ALL of My Books You read one of my books and fell in love. You must read more. All of them - twelve in total. And honestly, who...

Endings. Beginnings. We have it all here. I was sitting on the beach in Santa Cruz. It was Friday, the 27th of May and we were nearing...

I can't remember when we made it an annual thing. Sometime in the past nine years, since we found ourselves in our 1899 Victorian with a...

Beast, Yes, That's the Word... Question to the universe, will spring ever arrive? Or can we just expect to go straight from rain and the...

Winter's Child is DONE! I am so very, VERY relieved to announce that my 12th book, Winter's Child, is complete, edited, and in the...

TMI - You've Been Warned What follows is a bunch of numbers. Call it TMI, or whatever, it is what it is. My hope is that you will read...

Come Hell or High Water This is the week I will complete Winter's Child. Enough dithering around. My perfectionist side has been...

My life, like my writing, is not particularly linear in nature. There are jogs to the left and the right. Kids. Renovation projects....

Literary Twists I spent most of yesterday working in a major twist on Winter's Child. It had been a planned twist, but one I had put off...

Delays, Delays, and More... Dang, what is it about having a third child (and briefly 4th child) in the house? Or should I blame it on...

Bad News First A week ago, in the midst of being ill for the second time with a crummy cold or Covid, not sure which, I decided to shut...

I've been busy working my way through an Amazon Ads course led by Bryan Cohen. He runs Best Page Forward, which writes blurbs and ads for...

I was supposed to be writing, not looking at Facebook. That said, I did manage my daily quota of 2,000 words. In fact, I managed to write...

Say Goodbye to 2021 I started off the year hitting it hard - a book out in December 2020, followed by one in mid-February and again in...

20Booksto50k Conference in Vegas - I Found My Tribe Before I jetted off to Vegas, I tried to go through the lists of classes/seminars...

He's My Last I thought it would make me sad to say that, as if I were somehow admitting defeat. Weird, but true. But this darling little...

It's 2 a.m. and I should be asleep. Such is the way of things. Our Take on Middle-Eastern Lentil Soup There is a fantastic restaurant in...

Just a few more weeks and our sweet little newborn foster son will be ready for daycare. He's growing fast and doing phenomenal. I expect...