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Today’s the day ☀️

Feathers in the Sand (Seahaven Sunrise Series #1) is alive and well on Amazon and wherever books are sold!

If you love stories that stir your heart and soul, you will love Feathers in the Sand!

There are mysterious feathers, mother – daughter drama, a good big brother, summery sunrises, a hyperactive dog, a runaway cat, second chance romance, a wise older aunt, mysterious feathers and feathery altars, theatrical neighbors, and a whole lot more! Continue reading →

Read a thousand books,
and your words will flow like a river.

~ Lisa See

I love this quote because there’s a lot of truth to the fact that my writing is only as good as what I’m reading! Seriously, I’m quite sure I’ve read more than a thousand books in my lifetime, and I have to attribute the kinds of books I write to the many authors I’ve read over the years who have inspired me. Continue reading →

This famous line is well-known and beloved by Gilmore Girls fans around the world. In Season 1, Episode 16, Rory has just eaten a lovely meal at a fancy restaurant with her boyfriend, Dean. She orders dessert and one meatball to take home.

WAITER : One tiramisu, two forks, and uh, one meatball to go. Continue reading →

…or for present writers, in fact!  I saw this in a newsletter that I subscribe to and thought I’d pass it along here.

Quoted from About This Life, by Barry Lopez, when asked what to tell someone who wants to be a writer

They say you should write what you want to read, and it’s VERY true because one has to read one’s book MANY, MANY times before it feels complete! My final draft is #14, so you get my drift.

This was the view in my living room earlier this week as I read Feathers in the Sand all the way through ONE MORE TIME before I sent it to my book designer on Tuesday! Continue reading →

Lately I’ve been captivated and inspired by author Jennifer Louden’s new podcast series, Create Out Loud. In one of her more recent shows, she interviewed bestselling Japanese-American author, Ruth Ozeki.  Ruth is the author of four novels. The latest, which she talks about in this interview, is The Book of Form and Emptiness. Continue reading →

I fully agree with Virginia Woolf who wrote,
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

When we built our house in 1995, I asked for a space of my own, no matter how small. My brother-in-law Keith, who was instrumental in the construction process, heard me and double insultated this tiny room across from the master bedroom. Continue reading →

Tess and Eva Gilmore are the mother-daughter main characters of my new women’s novel—Feathers in the Sand—which is being published in June of 2022.  Let’s focus today on Tess.

Tess is a 40-year-old single mom with 2 children- Micah is almost 18, Eva is 11.

Unlike in this picture (which is the closest I could find to how I’m imagining her as I write), Tess doesn’t smile a lot. Continue reading →