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 novelāFeathers in the Sandāwhich is being published in June of 2022.Ā 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 →
Book Awards last month!
The main characters of Dragonflies at Night, singer/songwriter Ben and party planner Savannah, fall fast and hard for each other, pretty much immediately. They each know, on some level, that they are meant to be with each other.
While some people think that falling love at first sight (or almost first sight) isnāt a āthing,ā I experienced it firsthand in 1991 when I met a handsome guy named Jeff on a blind date. Continue reading →
A question I am frequently asked about this book is:
Which character do you most relate to and why?
In my women’s contemporary romance novel, Dragonflies at Night, Savannah Adams loses her mother to breast cancer at the age of fifteen, and her father to a terrible car accident at sixteen. Continue reading →
The women’s novel I’m writing right now takes place in a fictional seaside town in Southern Maine. Forty-something Tess Gilmore is a single mother in New Haven (Connecticut) who’s been working her butt off and taking night classes in office management the last four years, and has lost touch with her newly-graduated son Micah and her eleven-year-old daughter Eva. Continue reading →
I am currently in the shallow end of revisions for my second women’s novel, tentatively titled “Feathers in the Sand,” so it’ll be a while before that is ready for my beta readers. BUT…
In the meantime, I want to make y’all aware that I’ve just published my THIRD book of essays about the inner growth process called SoulCollageĀ®.Ā Continue reading →
I know,Ā I know! You probably weren’t expecting THIS show to stir my soul. But read on . . .
Several years ago there was an amazing television show that was popular here in America.Ā It was called How to Look Good Naked. Ā The host was Carson Kressley, a quirky and compassionate man whose main quest was to change womenās perceptions about their bodies. Continue reading →
I am often asked “Who is your favorite writer?”Ā
What???
That’s like asking me to name my favorite grandchild or brand of chocolate!
Not fair. At. All.
Thereās no way I can only choose one, but Iāll narrow it down a little.Ā Here are some of my most favorite authors.
In the fiction field, these are the ones who have inspired me the most in my own mission of writing stories that stir the soul:
Elizabeth Berg
Elizabeth Cunningham
Ann Crawford
And I just read the most amazing women’s novel, The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin. Continue reading →
In my upcoming novel, Feathers in the Sand, one of the characters (Micah) unexpectedly joins the Army and his decision affects his mother Tess and little sister Eva in huge (and also unexpected) ways.