A night out

We had a night out this past week – Six was playing at Philadelphia at the Academy…

And then there was one… again

This was his adoption photo When we lost Harriet earlier this year, I didn’t intend to…

A little gratitude

Apparently you CAN take them apart Thank you all for indulging my whining last week. I’m…

Raining stones

Warning: may contain whining. 2023 has had more complications than all of 2022, and possibly 2021.…

Watch this space

I finished my final edits this week, formatted the ebook, then formatted the paperback. Then I…

Small Things

This will be a random update post, because a lot of small things are happening. First,…

Fabulous Fashion Friday #5

This snippet is from From This Day Forward, the prequel novella to the Ava & Claire…

Fabulous Fashion Friday #4

Another snippet from Coming Closer, from later in the book. Claire decides that her sister needs…

Fabulous Fashion Friday #3

This week we have a snippet from Coming Apart, After Ava visited Claire in Philadelphia and…

Fabulous Fashion Friday #2

Another snippet from Coming Closer, this one from the very opening scene of the book. Because…

Fabulous Fashion Friday #1

Coming Closer (Ava & Claire Book #2) has a lot of sewing and 1930s fashion in…

Free Audiobooks!

Popping in briefly from my blurred state to give you a reminder about that audiobook giveaway…

An unexpected detour

So, not quite as planned. I had my cataract surgery on Tuesday and what should have…

Sharper Images

This is not quite how I see, but my photoediting software doesn’t blur any worse than…

2022 Roundup

My word for 2022 was “push,” partly to make up for what I felt was the…

Downhill to the holidays

It’s coming. The holidays.  I’m still stupid tired from the last few weeks and trying to…

It’s a sale!

  One of the best things about the holiday season is the sales. One for them,…

November Roundup

November has been a month, let me tell you. Figuring out how the launch went. Moving…

Happy Thanksgiving!

For Thanksgiving, I’d like to offer my take on Thanksgiving, 1932 in the combined households of…

Going down with the ship

When I joined Twitter in 2017, it was basically to see what was happening in the…

Something old, something new

I’ll bet some of you thought I’d stopped sewing. But no! Craft show season is in…

Alternate Endings: Samantha Wilcoxson and Reginald Pole

Yesterday I talked about Princess of Spain, my story in the Alternate Endings anthology. Today I have…

Alternate Endings: The Inspiration Behind Princess of Spain

So my submission for the Alternate Endings anthology is called Princess of Spain, and in my mind,…

Podcast – Authors Over 50

Popping in for the third time this week with a little announcement – I told you…

Lemonade (or as close as I can get)

So last week was the vacation-that-wasn’t, and I really think that karma should have taken note…