My 2025 Reading List

It was hard for me to make out this list of my favorite books of 2025. Not because I read so many but because this is the sum total of all the fiction I managed to read last year. I did read about five or six non fiction books, but as a life long reader, this list is...

26 by 26

So I follow this amazing behavior change doctor on Instagram and she made out her 26 by 26 list—a list of things that would give her an amazing start to the new year. She has some rules around them: they have to be one and done things… something that wouldn’t show...

Cover Reveal

I am so very proud of this cover… this is the first cover that I had a real voice in designing. I sat next to my amazing designer/fellow writer/friend, Debbie Schoeningh, and we tweaked it together. And tweaked, and tweaked and tweaked. Everytime we thought we...

Introducing Powder House Publishing LLC!!!

Over the past few months, I have been working on a special project. I have hinted at it, but never explained what I’m actually doing. The reasons for that are complex, but part of it had to do with working out how I would be perceived. As an author who initially had...

My Writers Block Unmasked

  Most writers know what it is like to be blocked. For me, it’s less about sitting down to write and being unable to than avoiding the writing altogether and making up fantastical chores or tasks to keep me from BITCHOK. (Butt in chair, hands on keyboard.)  ...