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Recently, I had the great pleasure of doing two interviews about Clara in a Time of War.One was with Atmosphere Press, my publisher. The other was with Joie Lesin, a blogger whowrites about books and other arts.Interviews are a wonderful way to get the word out about your book. They are also agood way to… Read More »Book Talk August 2023

It’s been a wonderful (and very busy!) journey since my book was published last month.Since this is my first published novel, and my first attempt to take something on theroad, I wasn’t sure how it would go. Would anyone want to get in a car and drive inorder to hear about my protagonist and her… Read More »On the Road

Raise your hand if you love historical fiction! Me, too, dear reader, and we’re not alone. This popular genre has re-emerged in recent years, and the book market is brimming with all kinds of offerings: Victorian romances, World War II spy thrillers, 1920s crime, and supernatural mysteries in just about any time period. There’s something… Read More »Historical Fiction Hurray!

At Historic Waynesborough Besides my home garden, I help tend the kitchen garden at Historic Waynesborough, the house museum where I’m a volunteer. Kitchen gardens were an essential of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life, especially in areas where people had little or no access to street markets. Depending on the number of mouths needing to be… Read More »More Plots…