Want a Peek at My New Book Cover?

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I wanted you all to be the first to see my new book cover. So here is the first peek at the cover of The Song of Sourwood Mountain that I’ve been promising to show you for a couple of weeks. While the book won’t be out there for readers until May 2024, it is already available for pre-order at …

My News! I Wrote “The End”

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“The greatest challenges humans face throughout their lives are two: 1- the challenge of where to start 2- the challenge of when to stop.” –Sameh Elsayed This quote caught my eye when I was looking at ways to celebrate finding those two all important words THE END, because while it may be talking about things we do in life, it …

Meet Sienna When the Meadow Blooms

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  I always love it when a young character shows up in my stories. It’s fun to look at what’s happening through a child’s eyes. I often have kids in my books. At times, my kids are central to the story as Sienna is in my upcoming release, When the Meadow Blooms. Sienna is such a great little girl to get …

The Most Memorable Gifts for All the Right Reasons

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“All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood—all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.” —Penelope Cruz On Christmas after the birth of my first grandchild twenty plus years ago, I had her father set her down on the floor in front of the Christmas tree …

When the Meadow Blooms Available for Pre-Order

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I just turned in a second round of edits on my upcoming release, When the Meadow Blooms, that will be available May 2, 2022. Normally, at this stage I don’t have to do a great deal of editing except for places where a deleted line or a change of wording can make the reading better. But this time, my editor …

Slaying the Dragon to Win Fair Maiden

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Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way. ~Phil McGraw Slaying the dragon for your true love – now, that sounds romantic. And a bit dangerous, I have to admit. Dragons are big …

Readers & Writers at the Fiction Readers Summit

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“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” – Lena Dunham I know all these wonderful readers and writers that I spent a couple of days with last week at the Fiction Readers Summit would agree with Lena Dunham on that extra day for reading. But not having that extra day …

Marking Things off my Bucket List

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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that it is too low and we reach it. ~Michelangelo Have you ever thought about making a bucket list? I’ve never actually sat down to write out a list, but there are some things I’ve always wanted to do or see. …