It started with my falling in lust with a red rotary phone that I saw in a thrift store. That led to the desire for an old-timey desk...

I hope this message finds you all well and hunkering down with the person, people, pet, or project you love. I’m lucky my sons and their...

A short story about the kindness of strangers I meet Geoffrey in the middle of the night on a Greyhound bus. He gets on in Cache Creek,...

My Serendipity Story When my first book (Hannah & the Spindle Whorl) was published ( Ronsdale Press, 2010), I wanted to commemorate the...

I guess I could have called this blog post, "What I Did on my Summer Vacation," but truth be told, "vacation" is totally the wrong word...

I’ve been an audiobook fan for a long time. I love consuming stories this way. If the narrator is good, I am right there in the story,...

Chapter 6 - Olives and The Birth of Venus For some reason, Mom and Dad look happier than they have in weeks. I'm not sure if it's because...

A couple of years ago I wrote a 40,000-word novella for Wattpad's Open Novella Contest. It was so much fun, with the added bonus of...

Because... who doesn't like free books? Well, THE PECULIAR LANGUAGE OF LLAMAS has been out for a couple of weeks, and books sales aren't...

I'm so excited that my latest young adult novel, THE PECULIAR LANGUAGE OF LLAMAS, is out in the world in eBook format. What's more, it's...

I'm very excited about the June 15th release of The Peculiar Language of Llamas, my latest book for young adults. You can pre-order the...

It's different for everyone. Some people are inspired by music, other's by a run at sunrise, and some, by cooking up at gourmet...