I’ll write for the rest of my life… because humanity is an endless ocean to explore. As a reader, I give myself over to the writer, trusting them to guide me through the experience of the book. As a writer, I know readers have placed this trust in me. For some authors, writing is a purely mental exercise, a flexing… Read More

If you’re human, you have unconscious biases. Ferreting those out isn’t just the right thing to do to make the world a better place for your fellow humans, it also opens up your world and makes it richer. It’s not easy, but human-ing rarely is. I have some pretty strong opinions about equality and justice and the lack of those… Read More

In 2011, I started self-publishing my novels. In 2015, I hit a major milestone–funding my 3 boys’ college education with my book money. I think I floated for a full week after that (and it’s paying off in a real way now as they actually are leaving the nest). In 2014, I started a separate penname (sexy romance) with a… Read More

The Trump Era is a real-time tutorial in how our democracy actually works. One of the most striking things to me was realizing that the Voting Rights Act of 1965–the core of the Civil Rights movement–not only isn’t permanent (it has to be reauthorized periodically) but it was substantially weakened in 2013 by a Supreme Court decision that said states… Read More