Eres Books has enrolled my novels in the Read an eBook Week from Sunday, March 3, 2013. The first two stories of the Nights Before series and Salsa Dancing with Pterodactyls, Part I are on offer. Also Following the Troops, Life for an Army Wife 1941-1945 is included. Just search for the book’s page and the discount code will […]
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’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 […]
Latest Post for Avalon Authors
“Never Put in Writing” is my post for this month at Avalon Authors’ Blog. What I learned from high rise window cleaners may seem a stretch but my mother would be proud I’ve learned that lesson.
To Self-Publish or Not to…
A short piece from me about a long piece from David Vinjamuri. Thoughtful and thought-provoking, detailed and thoroughly researched, this article, Publishing is Broken, We’re Drowning in Indie Books and That’s a Good Thing goes into depth about the advantages and disadvantages of independent (self-) publishing, gives reasons for its growth and predictions for the […]
Parachutes & Petticoats Cited
Parachutes & Petticoats, my second book with Honno, is cited in Alex McAulay’s Shelter Me. Pretty thrilling to be research material. McAulay used the collection of autobiographical writings by Welsh women and makes a reference to me and my co-editor, Deidre Beddoe. I stumbled across this when searching for my own titles. Nice feature this […]