Draft 2 of My Work-in-Progress Is Done!
This past weekend, I finally finished Draft 2 of my work-in-progress. Because of our cross-country
This past weekend, I finally finished Draft 2 of my work-in-progress. Because of our cross-country
Now that my husband and I are functional in our new apartment (though not entirely
This blog was on hiatus for a little longer than I expected. Followers of my
My mother and her friends exchanged recipes when I was growing up. From Dorothy Walker
April 10 is National Siblings Day. Although I have written many posts about siblings—my siblings,
As I’ve written before, any year is a good year when I get to walk
On Father’s Day, of course, I think of my father. And in the summertime, I
As I’ve delved deeper into closets and drawers and boxes, I’ve found all sorts of
As I work on my current novel, I am mired again in the vagaries of
One of the joys of writing is getting feedback from readers. Of course, the feedback
Despite an early exposure to ironing (Santa left me an ironing board when I was
Like A Murder in Time, The Bookseller haunted me because of how the novel deals
I’ve always been uncomfortable in hair salons—or “beauty parlors,” as we called them when I
No, my dad isn’t Robert DeNiro, but we did have our own version of “Meet
When I researched the 1840s for my Oregon Trail novels, I started with the big
I only recall one summer driving trip in my childhood to California. We made a
One of my challenges in writing about the 19th century has been trying to determine
I’ve written before about the idyllic summers I spent during my teenage years on Coeur
I’ve written before about the importance of reading in my family when I was growing
I’m hard at work editing my next historical novel, titled Forever Mine: Love Along the
On our recent drive from Washington State to Missouri, my husband and I detoured to