“Okay, Mrs. Jones, here’s the thing,” Yves said. “You put me in your books for the magic solutions I could bring to Earth, right?”

“Exactly,” I replied. “We need you down here to stop all the wars, and get rid of the guns, and .., well, I don’t really need to explain. You can see for…

“Open the book to page 99 and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.”

Ford Madox Ford

As I market my books I seek feedback and reviews. I start with the Page 99…

Author Quiz:

I don’t watch a lot of TV. I was a huge fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and now I like Young Sheldon. Extraordinary Attorney Woo on Netflix is amazingly good.

I’m not a music fan probably because I can’t sing and I prefer quiet to a radio or music.

I read anything that is…

Hi, I’m Curtis. Mrs. Jones—that’s her on the camel—put me in one of her books called EMBRACED. Sounds pretty mushy to me. Anyway, she says I have to tell you a little about the story.

Miss A, my school principal came to me one day with this page of scribbles. She thought it was some kind…

I’m a Drone and I’ve been chosen to be a Power. Imagine that. Me, a Power. Nothing like that has ever happened in the Drone world before. We’re just here to serve the Guardians of the Universe.

Of course, when I’m trying to “fix” Earth, I’ll have to use my skills and special abilities wisely. This…

France, Greece, Turkey, Bali, Hong Kong, Mexico… All wonderful holidays, but none can match the mystery and intrigue of living in and exploring West Africa—from Mali to Morocco, Ghana to Senegal, Bamako to Accra, Freetown to Tombouctou (aka Timbuktu).

Visit the Dogon Plateau northeast of Mali’s capital, Bamako, and you’ve time traveled to the stone age.…

She struggled through the thick vegetation, swinging the machete awkwardly, working her way towards her destination. Vines wrapped themselves around her legs. She yanked at the long skirt of her dress to free herself. She swung the machete again, and pushed through the narrow opening she’d created, ignoring the thorns that scratched her bare arms…

I’m going to write a novel. Fulfill a life-long dream.

I first played with the storyline of EMBATTLED when I suffered from insomnia. I thought it would help me sleep. It didn’t. Instead, in the dark, I scribbled notes on yellow post-it pads—notes that I mostly couldn’t read in the morning.

The book soon took over my…

Yes, I’ve written a novel. In fact I’ve written 3.3  novels. The point three is for the one in progress.

What prompted this frenzy of activity, the hours hunched over a keyboard, the rewrite after rewrite, and the attendance at three writing conferences and various workshops, not to mention all the seminars and all the reading…

As a small child living on the farm in the pre-television days I had a few books and on rare occasions, if my dad had a nickel to spare, a new Little Lulu comic.

The only book I remember clearly is Little Black Sambo. I loved how smart he was to outwit the tigers. I still…

“Did you hear?” our school librarian asks. “Glen Huser has a new book out.”

I had heard. I also knew he was coming back to the city for a launch at my favorite bookstore.

“Are you going?” She waved the ad for his reading in front of me. “You’re a friend of his, aren’t you?”

I am and…