For years, especially in the summers when the kids were home from school, I dreamed of being away from everyone to be able to write--alone. Anyone who's a mom trying to work at home knows the feeling--the constant interruptions, the steady in-and-out of people. Even the pets can be annoying. It grates on you after [...]

Star Trek turned fifty this week! As a diehard trekkie from the age of twelve, I couldn't let this anniversary go by without trying to put into words what Star Trek (still) means to me after all these years.  I was just a young geeky teen when reruns from the 60’s show were on TV [...]

I love reading historical romances and novels. Actually, I wrote four historical romances (two Regency and two Victorian) and a Jane Austen short story before I got published. But I was not a natural at it for sure! I spent so many hours stopping the writing and then researching everything from the types of teacups [...]

It's been a terrific summer, but there are signs that it's coming to an end. Kids are heading back to school and my grocery store is already selling everything with pumpkin in it and making orange, yellow, and brown icing for the cakes. (Not complaining--I love pumpkin!) Summer started officially with my daughter graduating from college. [...]

Every summer I think about how trying to work with kids around the house is like continually stabbing yourself in the eye with a pen. I still feel that way, even though my children are nineteen and above now, and have been in and out this summer as their lives have dictated.  But for a [...]

The proscenium arch of the theater. See the stars? In my latest Mirror Lake small-town romance that released this week, This Loving Feeling, there is a fabulous old theater from the 1920's that's in need of restoration. It's a big, splendid "Movie Palace" from the 1920's, and it's modeled after one in my very own [...]