Twice A Target by Susan Vaughan I started reading Twice a Target without realizing that I’d started at the end of this trilogy. That actually worked for me but I will go back to the beginning to read Never Surrender and Once Burned. I was attracted by the suspense premise of this novel as well […]
Writing: The Pleasure & the Bane II
The following are entries I began in a journal (handwritten in pencil) when my youngest was approaching 3 years of age. All the entries are in the ‘bane’ aspect but one has to wonder where the ‘pleasure’ comes from such as this? March 28 I do really want to be writing again but am having […]
Writing: The Pleasure & the Bane I
One day, and I have no distinct memory of when or where this happened, I decided I was going to be a writer. I had already gained a reputation in my family for “making up stories.” One of those “stories’ was actually true — there are foxes in Golden Gate Park (and coyotes by now). […]
Writing Ambitions (reposted from Avalon Authors)
I must have been all of three when I told my first story. Those few babbled words started an addiction I’ve never been able to shake, no matter how often I told myself that writing was not going to happen. No matter how often someone else told me not to be ridiculous. No matter who […]
Nights Before: New Serial
I’m beginning my new serial with ‘Twas the Night Before New Year, inspired by the children’s poem by Clement C. Moore and a personal experience. As you may know, the legend is that Clement Clarke Moore wrote A Visit from St. Nicholas on Christmas Eve, 1822 on a sleigh ride home from Greenwich Village. His inspiration […]
What I Learned from Helen Keller and My Father
My introduction to the life story of Helen Keller was through the film, The Miracle Worker. With the help of the acting brilliance of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, I watched the impaired little girl transform not only herself but her family and teacher by her determination to overcome the loss of sight and hearing […]
What’s So Great About Teachers?
I’ve posted my monthly blog at Avalon Authors. This month I’m writing about the teachers who inspired me. Who were your inspirations? Did one teacher change your life?
Wait a Lonely Lifetime – Paperback
Wait a Lonely Lifetime is now available in paperback from Montlake. You can take a peek inside and read the first review. If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area in October, save this date:
Wait a Lonely Lifetime @ Florey’s Book Co.
The great independent bookstore, Florey’s Book Company, in Pacifica, CA has Wait a Lonely Lifetime in stock and I will be there on October 20th to talk about how the book came about, discuss writing and publishing. There will be a reading from the book and actors’ recordings of Sylviana’s and Eric’s first letters to […]
Memoir of an Army Wife, 1941-1945
I’m proud to announce that my mother’s long awaited memoir of her experiences and journeys during World War II is available at Smashwords, Amazon and Kobo. Soon on Barnes & Noble. My mother entrusted the stories in Following the Troops to me in 1991 while I was working on Parachutes and Petticoats. Although I was […]