This blog platform and I have had a great run together (it's been a decade!), but it's time to move on. For my convenience and you...

If you follow me on Facebook , you will know that I am in the midst of preparing to leave the Southwest (where I have spent most of my time...

You never know what you'll find when you open your storage unit. What I found when I rummaged through mine recently was a small stac...

That's 90s as in age, not as in the 1990s, and the nonagenarian in this first-person excerpt from my novel  The Emmeline Papers  is th...

"My characters are as real to me as any flesh-and-blood personage, and I am grateful to them for continuing to live out such fasci...

"Your book is a trickster!" – Book-Birthing Rule #9,  Birthing Your Book…Even If You Don’t Know What It’s About ...

Some years back when I was visiting Toronto, a friend treated me to a ticket to Barbra Streisand's first-ever concert performance in tha...

Because I knew that, regardless of the outcome, I was bound to be stressed by Election Day reporting, I purposely avoided all news, includ...

I am often asked at the end of an interview whether I have one piece of advice for the writers listening to the show. Or, if it's Nov...

"Don't be fooled into thinking you are supposed to arrive at a destination. It is the going that is central, the you that is going....