Novelist
My publishing career took a huge leap forward when I began publishing, both with KDP and WRP. (Kindle Digital Publishing) and (Wild Rose Press). The Paris Notebook, a stand alone, published by WRP’s “Champagne Rose” category. I was reading lots of chick lit at that time but I also wrote short stories that were more…
Before my mother loaned me her typewriter, she bought me a diary. I filled it. Finished it, then bought my own notebooks and that’s how I wrote until she said “I have a typewriter you can use” and I did. In that way, I owe my mom my writing career and she is my biggest…
Memoir This is my first book, which I wrote for my creative writing students. It was originally a stack of what we teachers call “handouts.” I added to that as I went along and there’s a revised version with internet publishing advice. It needs another revision because KDP really took off. This book is free…
Many friends have sheltered me. I’ve also slept in cars parked in corn fields and on patchy grass highway overpasses with just a ragged quilt for a cover, and once, on the library lawn in my hometown, Taylor, Michigan. We moved frequently when I was a child, but never far. Finding or making a loving…

Went for a liver check. Since I quit drinking or using any type of painkiller, it’s three years now, my liver has rejuvenated itself by about 50%. When I first found out I had a fatty liver, my doc said she didn’t think mine would be able to repair the damage, even with the giving…