Those early weeks… weeks of excitement, anticipation, anxiety. Those weeks following the release of your next book when you wait for the early affirmation that your story has connected with readers, that it will be accepted and supported by the book stores, and that it will have life beyond the...

After three years, five storyline changes, four reader critiques and sixteen edits, “Grayton Winds” is now on bookstore shelves, book retailer website pages and in reader’s hands. A departure from my previous two books set in Northern Michigan, “Grayton Winds” moves to Paris in the years following WWI, to Atlanta, Georgia,...

My first novel, The Seasons of the EmmaLee, has been in the bookstores since 2005. I’ve been keeping a close eye on the changes in the publishing industry these past years, as most writers have. There is no denying that there is a dramatic transformation underway in how readers find...

Welcome to my blog musings on writing and publishing. In the coming months I plan to share news and information about my writing journey, as well as thoughts and lessons learned navigating the publishing world. With two novels now on the shelves of the major chain bookstores and the many great...