Read Q&A about my new book Daredevil on authorof.blogspot.com Here's one of the questions and answers: Question: You'v...

I'm having an online for Ling and Ting Share a Birthday o n my blog!  All day long, I'll be posting fun things to celebrate the bo...

I am so proud to be part of We Art Boston , a fundraiser for the Emergency and Trauma Fund at Boston Children’s Hospital. Original...

Yes, the book is now out !  In celebration, here is the book trailer !!! Hope to see some of you at the birthday party on Saturday ! ...

One of the nice things about living on this island is that there is no ageism (you have to be over a certain age, I think, to know how preva...

Authors rarely seem FRANK in their advice to other writers -- maybe because those who are sometimes lose their mystique. Trollop, for exampl...

So, the Ling and Ting Share a Birthday comes out in September! That is next month! Usually, by now I am knee deep in booklaunch p...

So, I am still setting up the studio. I admit I have pretty high standards for it, which is why it is taking so long. One of the things...

  1. What is the working title of your next book(s)? I am currently revising a draft of my first chapter book, tentatively t...

Even though the studio is not completely set up (note the empty book tower in the back), work cannot wait for my perfectionist aspirati...

    One of the things that has been discouraging me lately about writing is that so many children on this island who USED TO read are...

It's easy to get discouraged in this business -- and it IS a business, that's one of the discouraging things! But there are many oth...

An interesting article from CNN last week on the subject of getting published: A better story than J.K. Rowling's

I can't say that I'm sad to see him go.  Ha! That rhymes. 

    1. What is the working title of your next book(s)? Tibbie Macgregor and the Scottish King --a partly true story ...

So, I was tagged by Ann Downer to participate in this blog tour. It's chain-letter tour of sorts where I answer questions about...

4.00 a.m. Hear ba-ing and think, even in my sleep, that it’s not on the road but in my garden. 4.02 run to door (can’t look out w...

One of the caveats of our move  was that I had to have a new studio . And what was more, the new studio had to be dream studio, a new...

travelers on our own journey! So, this is the time of year when publishing world is all abuzz with their national conferences a...