This week I had the great honor to have an article in LIttsburgh Magazine about my upcoming release, Searching for Home. They included the cover, the first chapter, and a Q&A to provide some background to questions about the content and process. To read the entire article, go to: www.littsburgh.com and look for me!

While there is no story without a plot, there certainly is little to no story without characters. The people who reside within the pages are the focus, their lives are the context, their interactions move the action. Where do they come from? In Searching for Home, releasing on October 29, 2024, the characters walked out […]

Searching for Home, releasing on October 29, 2024–which happens to be my mom’s birthday–is a bit genre-defying. Placed on the shelves of a bookstore, it would be in the paranormal romance section. That’s accurate, as far as it goes. But oh, there is so much more. My two-fold goal in developing the story line was: […]

My new book, Searching for Home, will release on October 29, 2024. For the next few weeks I’ll be posting excerpts to give you a taste of what’s to come. Here’s a little background for today. I don’t know about you, but most of my life I felt really bad for the people I saw […]

There is quite a lot of dissent in the literary community about the use of a prologue. Popular wisdom says that editors hate them and won’t even look at a proposal that begins with one. Does that mean to avoid a prologue no matter what? In what is only my opinion, not at all. But […]

To outline or not to outline, that is the question. With apologies to Shakespeare and his brilliant play, Hamlet, this question at times haunts me. There are outstanding authors who plot an entire book, others who do not. What is the prevailing wisdom? There are multiple really good resources to explain the subject. And there […]

Spoiler alert: there is no “right” way, and if someone tells you there is, don’t listen. Writing isn’t a rote exercise, an assembly line, or a hideout for the uninspired. But there are a few simple considerations that can enrich your efforts. They are the write way. In the next few blog posts, we will […]

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