I don’t think anyone who has lost someone close to them ever feels purely happy during the holidays. I remember as a child, having a very clean joy. I was …Read more
My middle grade novel is out in the world — welcome, Jinnie Wishmaker!
I’ve been kinda quiet about a little marketing experiment I got involved in with BooksonBoard.com. This company, one of the largest independent e-book retailers online, decided a few months ago …Read more
Shutting out the world, 30 days at a time
My life gets pretty crazy. Two kids. A split household. Two small businesses. Sometimes you can’t see my sink. Okay, usually you can’t see the sink. But despite the day-to-day …Read more
The Smashwords NaNoWriMo Project has free chapters of Stella & Dane for download
Smashwords is one of the current bastions of the independent-publishing movement. I noticed today that they have been running a project in conjunction with National Novel Writing Month to promote …Read more
Stella & Dane Excerpt 3: Grandma’s last jewels
Earlier in the novel you learn that Stella considers her grandmother to be her mother figure. But she’s been sent home from the nursing home in hospice care for end-stage …Read more
Stella & Dane Excerpt 2: The girlfriend has claws
The writing is going well! I have clocked in at 11,000 words. In the first excerpt, you met Stella, who wanted to climb the water tower during the day as …Read more
On writing love scenes at 7 a.m.
So last night Stella and Dane finally got to meet, carefully dove tailing this introduction to the way it was described in Baby Dust. Of course, Dane already HAS a …Read more
Obsession and 80s Poison (the perfume, not the band)
Since the main character of my new novel works in a perfume shop in the mid-1980s, I’ve had to do a bit of research. I remember a few bottles tossed …Read more
Opening pages to my new novel Stella & Dane
The new book has begun! Everyone loved Stella from Baby Dust so much that I decided to tell her backstory. So much happens to her in the 44 years prior …Read more
Free stuff! And a prequel to Baby Dust!
So many people have asked about Stella’s back story from my novel Baby Dust, that I have decided to write her story next. Fans of the first novel can absolutely …Read more






