The leaves on the maple trees are changing from green to red, yellow, and orange here in the Rideau Valley, and as another summer transitions to autumn, endings and new beginnings are much on my mind. English Rose started high school this week, a major life milestone...
Bookish Jottings invited me to write a guest post about the inspiration for my FIREFLY LAKE series, and also share an excerpt from SUMMER ON FIREFLY LAKE. Read the post here.
In celebrating the release of Summer on Firefly Lake, I was invited to write a guest post for Fresh Fiction about “The top 5 challenges of writing small town romantic women’s fiction.” From writing what you know to writing about journeys, read the...
As many of you know, “kindness” is my word for 2017. All too often, though, it can seem we’re living in a world where kindness is in short supply. The global news headlines are almost unceasingly grim. My social media feeds catalogue ills large and...
Tech Guy, English Rose and I have been on holiday this week. After months of bouncing between writing deadlines (me), school and medical appointments (English Rose), and work in big-city Toronto and our small-town home (Tech Guy), we all needed time to stop, reconnect...
