Somehow it’s already September. I blinked and the summer vanished. How??? How did this happen??? Have the calendar trolls been toying with me? So I never got around to making a book page for Made You Look or pretty much any other book, for that matter. Don’t act surprised, because you already know I’m a terribly inefficient website administrator. The very word “administrator” being applied to ME is wrong. Wrong, I tell you. I don’t administrate. Apparently I don’t blog […]

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Here’s the cover for my upcoming September book, Made You Look. I’ll created a book page for it soon with more info. Stay tuned:

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Okay, so I disappeared for a wee little month and a half. It happens. The truth is, I was knocked on my butt by a book. It all started like this… I wrote a manuscript last fall that didn’t go as I hoped it would. Things went wrong on many levels. I pushed through and got it written, working through vacation and Christmas and finishing it up December 26th. I turned it in, and a few months later, I got […]

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This morning I had to get my kids to school early so that my son could participate in an Earth Day presentation. His class had gathered up all the wasted food from recent lunches at the school, weighed it, and did some math to figure out how much food on average was going to waste during each lunch at every school in our county. They presented their findings to the entire school and pointed out how the food is not […]

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Among the various pets my kids have talked me into accumulating, our ball python Jawzahr (named for the mythical Persian dragon who chased the sun and moon) gets the most frequent expressions of disapproval from friends and family. Why on earth would you want a snake? they sensibly ask. My initial answer was, my son wanted it. He was going through his reptile phase, and he’s such a careful and attentive observer of nature, I wanted to reward his interest […]

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Have you ever wondered how novels get their names? The process usually goes something like this: I give my book-in-progress a working title. Lots of writers don’t get hung up on whether this working title is a good one, but I’m completely obsessed with names, so I can’t start writing the story with any seriousness until I know what its name is. My current work in progress had a working title of These Three Words. I love Stevie Wonder. I […]

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