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
A family displaced by wildfire
I am a photographer involved in the Recapturing Memories Project, an organization that pairs families who have lost their homes to wildfire with a photographer who provides a free family …Read more
For Sonya Sones upon the reading of her new novel-in-verse
You know a book Has marrow in its spine Heart blood in every line When you turn the last page Then flip to the front And start again Read …Read more
Background of the fire photo and info on permissions
My children had just gotten safely home after driving an hour through smoke when I saw the image. The girls had been out camping, their father sending me a tense …Read more
Helping the Central Texas fire evacuees
It’s hard to be in Austin right now. The heat wave finally ended and settled into 90 degrees after 80 days of 100+, but our hearts are breaking over the …Read more
