If you subscribe to my monthly reader newsletter, you may remember in January I mentioned a podcast chat with author Laura Vosika and Certified Cicerone (beer sommelier) Michael Agnew, hosts of “Books and Brews: Where Literature Meets Beer.” In that chat, I read three...
I’m speaking to my local writing group next week about life as a traditionally published author and moving from writing as a hobby to a job. As such, I’ve been thinking about what being an author means and the best and hardest things about this career. Building a...
Hope is a theme in my next Second World War women’s fiction novel, The Secrets of Grey Oaks Hall. In both the historical and contemporary timelines, female protagonists hold to hope and the promise of better times ahead when life—and living it—are dark. Hope is also...
Authors, including me, jest that it’s lucky nobody in authority checks our internet search histories. Since I’m not a crime writer, I don’t have the browsing history that comes from wanting to find out things like “poisons made from everyday household items.” However,...
Instead of a regular blog post today, I have several bits of news to share, as well as an anecdote about an unexpected angel who brightened my day when I needed it. Make a cake featured in the The Sweetheart Locket Earlier this week, I wrote a post for Novel Noshing,...