This week I’m delighted to welcome my British author friend Eva Glyn (who also writes as Jane Cable) to my blog. Eva has a special post for you about what libraries mean to her and how they feature in her recent book, The Croatian Island Library, a moving...
Despite living in Canada, I’m not a winter person. While British friends post photos of snowdrops and green daffodil shoots, I look out my window at snowdrifts knowing it will be almost three months before I see any such signs of spring here. This January has...
Hello, 2026 and wishing you all the best for this new year. While the holiday season is over, it’s still Christmas in my world as I’m working on edits for two seasonal books. One is A Small Town Family Christmas (September 2026), third in my Jen Gilroy Strawberry Pond...
Thanks to author Morton S. Gray for hosting me on her blog with a guest post about how The Teacher Evacuees, my first WW2 British home front saga/women’s fiction story as Rose Warner, blends my Canadian and British lives. Cookies or biscuits, family history,...
For those who mark Christmas, it’s the season to celebrate the Nativity, gather with family and friends, put up sparkly decorations, exchange brightly-wrapped gifts and more. It’s also a time of joy and renewal, love and hope and to observe the turning of another...
