I didn’t set out to write a book about home. I set out to write a book about a place. Four years before I ever typed a word of this story, my husband and I drove across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel onto a skinny strip of land I hadn’t even known existed… the Eastern Shore…
So, to begin my tale, let me say that in May, I revamped my website and was committed to continuing weekly newsletters. Then my husband and I got a call that a house in a community in Williamsburg, Virginia, was available (we’d been told it might take several years). We had a major decision to…
What is your favorite time of day? For me… It’s early morning. I rise, feed the pets, and then sit on the sofa to stare out the wall of windows that face one of the many inlets of the Chesapeake Bay on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The view is toward the east, so depending…
I have had the amazing opportunity to not only visit but also have a condo on the fabulous Eastern Shore of Virginia, now the setting of my upcoming release and beginning of the new Baytown Bay Series. Coming Home will star Mitch, one of the FBI agents that my readers have become introduced to through…
I saw this meme on Facebook the other day and loved it. It spoke to my heart and actually described me perfectly. I sometimes wonder what readers think about how a book gets written. Not the final product you see pimped on social media or newsletters, but what it takes to get a book actually from inside…
Release day jitters! Today is release day for my 16th book and you’d think that there would no longer be any anxiety or jitters! But alas, each book represents a part of myself, my creativity, my being…that is released into the world. Like a child that makes its way, you hope that the world will be kind….