We were an unlikely pair, Olive Ann Burns and I. She was sixty, a gentle, charming Southern housewife with dreams…
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A duet with a friend — and some good winter soup
I practiced a visualization all through last winter, one I returned to again and again as I sat alone writing…
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First peek: Magical Journey video & excerpt (and win an advance copy)
I’ve always loved this solstice season of short days and long, cold nights. It is as if all of nature…
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Details
The process of publishing a book has changed a bit since my own early days in the business. Looking back…
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Reconnecting
Have you ever fallen out of touch with a good friend? You’d really like to call; you miss her. But…
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A Birthday About Giving Back: The Gifts are for YOU
It’s the one part of the publishing process that I truly dread: sending my unedited, ink-just-barely-dry-on-the-page manuscript out into the…
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