Imagine blissfully retiring before the age of fifty. Your youngest gets her driver’s license, freeing you to finally do whatever strikes your fancy every day. Golfing comes to…
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“The World Begins at a Kitchen Table No matter what, we must eat to live.” So begins the evocative poem “Perhaps the World Ends Here” by the new…
KITTENS saving NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli? No Way! I don’t write cozy mysteries. Corelli is a kickass detective. No crafts, dogs or kittens allowed. Yet it happened. And…
Sometimes I walk into a place and it immediately affects me—good or bad. I’ve been known to enter a restaurant, take a whiff, and literally turn on my…
After writing My Forever Hero, set in Australia’s summer, I wanted to focus on a story that takes place in winter. A Canadian one at that, with lots…
The extraordinary Ann Roberts is the editor for my next release. I met her in person the first night I was in Las Vegas for the Golden Crown…
I don’t write for a living. I am a writing teacher by trade. As I’ve said before, I came to writing to save myself. You might have heard…
I am Australian. I love alpine skiing. Like really really love, to the point of obsession. These two things together are problematic, because in Australia we really only…
For some creatives, there’s a moment, a spark when they know they were meant to do something with their art. For others, it comes slowly, and works its…
Picture it: January, 2014. I was enjoying seven months of sobriety and live tweeting the Golden Globes in my pajamas. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were hosting that…
Being a published author of lesbian fiction, for me, is like a dream come true. It’s taken years of preparation to get to this point and now that…