My Book Birthday, and a Giveaway!

Today’s the day! My debut novel, Stirring Up the Viscount, officially releases today from The Wild Rose Press. I am alternately excited and terrified. It’s a funny thing, a book birthday. Not unlike sending your kid to school for the first time. Is she wearing the right clothes? Will the other kids like him? Will Read More

Because You Can Never Have Too Much Hockey

This post is late because of hockey. This weekend my son was in a youth hockey tournament at our home rink, so not only did he play in three games, I scored two other games, and then we watched the championship game, which sadly, he wasn’t in. Six hockey games in three days. It is Read More

Author Interview: Alicia Dean and Giveaway!

Today marks a foray into new territory: author interviews! My first guinea pig guest is Alicia Dean, a fellow author at The Wild Rose Press. Alicia’s latest book, End of Lonely Street, was published on January 8. Thanks for joining me today, Alicia! Thank you for having me! Tell us a bit about you. Where do you live, Read More

The Rusticators

My next book takes place in a fictional town in Maine, near Bar Harbor. Set in 1871, it precedes the “gilded age” experienced in many American cities–my hometown among them–but by then the wanderings of America’s wealthy elite were already being felt in Maine.  As I was doing research for the book, I made some discoveries. In the Read More