WOO HOO, it's June! Time to enjoy the good weather. Kids love summer because school is out and every day becomes a "play" day. Adults...not so much. We still have work to do, housework to deal with, and all those other responsibilities that kids don't realize go hand-in-hand with the alleged...
I've just returned from a whirlwind trip to London. In three and a half days, I squeezed in sight-seeing all around the city, plus trips to the Cotswolds, Bath, and Stonehenge. Suffice to say, my Fitbit got quite the workout! Those of you who have been following this blog (or, more particularly,...
It's that time of year again: Prom season! Some things haven't changed throughout the decades, like mothers and daughters going shopping for the perfect dress and shoes. Of course, gone are the flouncy princess dresses of yore. I still remember my purple silk-organza gown, with its ruffled,...
We are all broken, that's how the light gets in. -- Ernest Hemingway I just turned in the final Sterling Canyon book to my editor, which means it's time to start a new series. Similar to my St. James series, this one will be a set of connected stories (tentatively, the Cabot novels) centering...
I confess, I'm in a great mood despite the fact that snow is falling outside. Yes, snow in April. Needless to say, spring weather in New England is unpredictable. But I digress. My point is that I can deal with the snow because I'm still riding the high from the weekend thanks to dozens of...
Yesterday was a monumental day in the world of romance authors, for some more than others. The Romance Writers of America announced the finalists is its annual RITA (published authors) and Golden Heart (unpublished authors) contests. Alas, my books did not make the cut. But in all honestly, I had...
I'll be fifty later this year. When I say that aloud, it still shocks me. I don't feel a day over thirty-five---until I look in the mirror. Sometimes my heart aches a little when I take stock of my thinning hair, my saggy middle (no, not the one plaguing the first draft of my current manuscript),...
When nothing is sure, everything is possible ~ Margaret Drabble I love the positive spin this perspective places on uncertainty, which is a state of being most of us otherwise dread. This reminder seems especially apt at the end of a rough week in the publishing industry (and for several of my...
