Ok my hand is up - I'm guilty as charged.  Just like plumbers with leaky taps and builders with doors that stick, I'm guilty of not doing my own work first.  And that's a big deal for me, because I constantly hear myself guide other writers to commit to writing at...

After waiting with  baited breath, chewing my nails down to nearly my elbows, finally a handful of reviews are starting to roll in from people who have read my new book - Margaret - a song out of time.   WHEW - it's always a relief to hear that people have really...

One thing that I've learned through nearly a decade of working in the book business, is that you can never have too much help to market your work.   So I'm going to share with you some of my favorite author tools - and some of these are recently discovered....

20 + years ago, my young husband died.   I was newly pregnant, with another young child to care for, and it was a very unexpected death.  I was devastated, and lost for a very long time in the shock of it all and then the demands of my children through the years....