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Good morning: I just got the edited version back from my editing guru and she had some pretty cool things to say about the book. "You’ve outdone yourself with this one! Truly. Such an intelligent, well-told, compelling, realistic story. The amount of research you must...

A friend of mine just finished reading a draft of the next book coming out, Skoli on Ice and she asked me where she could find a Russian of her own. It struck me, not for the first time, that everyone has a different kind of man that appeals to them. For me, it was my...

In an attempt to get more assertive in my marketing approach, I've been researching different ways to get the word out about my books. There are four of them: Cold Sweat and The Edge of Forever which are the first two books in the Scalera Family series, Thrown for a...

Seems I've been negligent about reaching out but I've been diligently working on the new series FIRE and ICE for the last several months and it's hard to pull myself away. With the first book in the series, CONSUMED BY FIRE, available on Kindle I think it's time to...

Over the last couple of months I've read two books that had an appendix at the back where the author listed things they liked. It gave the reader a sense of who the author was, which was meant to enhance the reading experience. I thought it might be fun to follow...

...to me, means baseball... With the first pitch of the season, I thought more and more about the characters in one of my contemporary novels, Thrown for a Curve. Though I was aiming to get my sequel to Cold Sweat out next, I've decided to go with the story of the...

Last week I was visiting someone in the hospital and the conversation ran to all kinds of things. The movie Hidden Figures was recommended as a must see. It was a story, a factual and true story, about women in an age when they were merely asterisks on the stage of...

Yesterday I had lunch with some of my cousins, and aunt and my daughter. We try to get together every few months, something we’d promised we’d do but never got around to until this year. It’s fun being with people you grew up with, get along with and who make you laugh. There is one […]

Yesterday I had lunch with some of my cousins, and aunt and my daughter. We try to get together every few months, something we'd promised we'd do but never got around to until this year. It's fun being with people you grew up with, get along with and who make you...

I almost forgot to celebrate Earth Day today. Not to worry, because I celebrate the Earth every day. It's such a beautiful planet with it's blue water and green grass, trees, rivers, mountains...and it's home. When I was taking a science class many years ago, I...