Friend Friday
Okay, when I tell you that Dave Patneaude is a friend, that is a serious understatement. He and I have been in critique groups together off and on for years. [...]
Book Birthday!
Today is the book birthday for Liberty -- hooray! Writing Liberty was like wrassling alligators in a vat of gumbo. My creative process is always messy but it was downright discouraging as [...]
Friend Friday
I so love to hear other writer's stories about how they came to writing, how they came to find the stories they were meant to write. So I was pleased [...]
Friend Friday
Please welcome the prolific (nineteen novels!) Karen Rivers to my blog today to celebrate her newest book, The Girl in the Well is Me (Algonquin Books for Young Readers) which [...]
Happy Birthday, Audacity Jones!
Today is the book birthday of Audacity Jones to the Rescue. I've never had so much fun writing a book. I hope you have as much fun reading it! Do [...]
Friend Friday
What a treat it is to host Anne Nesbet! Anne and I are cyber friends only at this point but I know we'd be best buds if our paths [...]
Friend Friday
Bonny Becker and I go waaaaay back. We were part of the same critique group when her now wildly successful Bear and Mouse books were merely gleams in Bonny's imagination. Her [...]
Friend Friday
Boy oh boy, am I happy to host Linda Urban today. We met eons ago at a writing retreat facilitated by then editor Linda Zuckerman, both unpublished but eager to [...]
Friend Friday
Natasha Wing is a friend from waaaay back. I can't recall the first time we met but I know it was when she was a member of my writing partner [...]
Friend Friday
It is my great delight to host Paddy Eger today. She was a student of mine years ago with a powerful historical fiction manuscript. I knew her words would find [...]