My newest release, The Descendant’s Daughter, released this week. I’m excited to share the story. Halle Jayne Murphy, the main protagonist, is a newly-turned-thirty young woman who thinks her life is ideal and can’t imagine change. She loves her career. She shares an apartment with her best friend. She’s happy. She has lived an idyllic […]
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A New Book with an Old Story
The release of my newest novel, The Descendant’s Daughter, is now waiting on the horizon. While a contemporary story line carries the book, I get excited thinking about the historical theme that originated from my own personal family history. I consider the opportunity to share a fictional re-creation of my great-great-grandfather’s tale a privilege. I […]
A New Book is Coming
This week I signed a contract for a new time slip series with Forget Me Not Romances, a division of Winged Publications, based in Arizona. The first book in the series, The Descendant’s Daughter, is already in production and scheduled to release soon. This is a fictional story with two timelines, one contemporary tale that […]
When Heaven Gained A Hero
I’ve written about my neighbor before. He’s the man who lived across the street. The man who raised a garden big enough to feed a city block. The man who fought in WWII and received several medals and a commendation from President Roosevelt. That last part I didn’t know until his ninetieth birthday party. I […]
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When Our World Collapses
On this the nineteenth anniversary of 911, my state was under siege. Smoke hung like a curtain over our valley. Wild fires raged in the hills. The threat of evacuation hovered in levels 1, 2,and 3, dependent upon where you lived. What began as a high wind warning last Sunday turned forest fires […]
What’s Happened to Fall?
Autumn is having a hard time showing up this year. Perhaps it’s confused. No yellow school buses are barreling down the streets, making frequent stops to pick up children. Temperatures here are still in the nineties, making it seem like summer is fighting its annual exit. The town is relatively quiet, the usual frenzy of […]
Launch Party Success
Parties are difficult to plan during the current state of affairs. Pandemic rules vary. Masks today, but not tomorrow. Indoor venues out, outdoor venues limited. Six feet between everyone. Coughs are not allowed. Along comes a book launch party — Mine. I didn’t know what to do. No obvious venues were available. No parks, no […]
Release Day is Upon Us!
This is the week. The long awaited release of Love’s Autumn Harvest happens this Friday, July 31. This story has been coming awhile. I first wrote it several years ago, and it placed in several contests. It garnered the attention of more than one publisher. I found an agent. But God in His wisdom didn’t […]
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When Fiction Mirrors Real Life
The husband of one of my critique partners fell from a fork lift last week, severely injuring himself. He was taken by ambulance to our local hospital and as each day progressed another fracture, wound, or bruise was discovered and added to his assessment. By the end of the week the list of problems sounded […]
God Bless the USA
When I was a child, I celebrated the Fourth of July like everyone else—setting off firecrackers, picnicking, and attending the local fireworks display with my family. The Fourth of July represented only a day for fun. I didn’t know there were others around the world who couldn’t play as I did. But now, as […]