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I caught a commercial the other day that gave me a giggle—not because it was funny but because humans are so weird. This fake celebrity woman was selling something at a mock press conference, peppered by questions under strobing photo flashes and I don’t even remember the product. Just the duck lips. The immovable forehead.…
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Last week, one of my friends posted a cartoon to my timeline about writer’s block. I don’t know if he jinxed me, but it came at a time when I had pushed back from drafting the 11th book in The Admiral Inn series because I just wasn’t feeling it. I would sit down to write…
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Twenty-six years after I had sent these pastels as gifts, they came back to me with a request: take them to a framer and have them matted, glassed and framed. Because I had created these candid portraits of three sons over the course of a year and each time, mailed them off, this moment a…
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I came across the phrase the other day, “Building Character,” as in whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but the first time through, I read it wrong because I have a “building” character. And for anyone who knows the admiral’s mansion in my books, that building builds character, too. A few surprises cropped up…
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I pen cozy mysteries, women’s literature, urban fantasy, paranormal fantasy, and science fiction. As an essayist, I speak to craft, creatives, and gentle common sense. As an artist, I create whatever I want.
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