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It’s mom’s birthday today. Hi, Mom! Just in case someone reads this to you, I’m sorry we are not out to lunch at Olive Garden. I was not able to send you books, either. It’s sad you cannot read anymore as reading was always your biggest pleasure (aside from you grandsons!) It sure is a…

How to Win a BookThis is the last day of our Florida Gulf Coast Sisters in Crime 12 Days of Christmas online event. Seems like everyone is using Facebook and that works for me as Facebook is my friend page. I have Instagram too, but I use that mostly to post whatever books I’m reading.…

This is what’s new in December! I love Christmas! Which is why I have written two Christmas books, one contemporary and one historical. I love reading historical romances and have since I was a tween. To celebrate the holiday and my first historical romance featuring Christmas I have joined with other writer friends in a…
Jodi Picoult is a great writer. Her sentences are impeccable. Her stories intrigue. We seem to have the same interests/obsessions. And sometimes she goes a bit overboard with her research. When I learned her latest novel was about how Shakespeare is really a woman, well, I was upset. Not that old argument again…I’d been hearing…
I love Florida truly except in hurricane season. It wasn’t always this way. Apparently there’s a new “hurricane alley” and the Gulf Coast is it. My dad’s town of St Pete got hit with Helene, the first time in a hundred years there was such flooding and loss of life for his city. My dad…