Happy 2018, my dears! I hope your holidays were cozy and full of all the things and people you love. In the past couple weeks we’ve layered on the sweaters and spent lots of time refilling bird feeders, but happily so. I’ve been making plans for the year, and they’re relatively simple: more time with …Read More

  SURPRISE! We interrupt our regular Monday programming* to bring you the totally adorable cover for my next novel, SMALL TOWN TROUBLE, a Trouble the Black Cat Detective novel in the Familiar Legacy series. Ever since the moment I saw this a couple of weeks ago, I’ve wanted to share it with you. I’m so …Read More

    The Serendipitous Part Good advice on where to send financial help for Hurricane Harvey victims Paris thieves steal valuable wine by breaking in via the Catacombs. Sounds like a movie. We lost two country music stars this week: Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry, and legend Don Williams. And yesterday was Patsy Cline’s birthday. …Read More

  Being a full-time writer sounds like a dream job, doesn’t it? No schedule, only a deadline or two. You get to be your own boss, make your own plans. The ideas flow, one right after the other. If they don’t come, you can take a hike, or read all day. What could be better? …Read More

        We’re all over the place this week. So much serendipity…   Sleep. It’s a Very Good Thing. We love the show, Broadchurch, and I can’t wait for the next season to get over here. But apparently there is a huge tea kerfuffle brewing. I read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods years ago, …Read More

My dears, I’ve been so excited to surprise you with this interview. Excellent friend and wonderful writer Carolyn Haines is here to answer some fun questions for us. I’ve included her official bio below, but you should know she’s written seventy-plus books during her career, and as a teacher of writing she’s mentored many, many students as …Read More

I’m not a very crafty person. At least not in the scrapbooking, sewing, beading, needlework sense, anyway. Of course, when you have kids, your lack of craft skills becomes glaringly obvious when their friends show up in precious handmade Halloween costumes and your child is wrapped in a bed sheet decorated with twine and a dried-out Sharpie. Then you …Read More

Carolyn Haines, wildly prolific author of over 70 (!) books, has been on my radar screen for a long, long time. But I’ve just gotten to know her a little better, and I want to introduce her to you, too. Carolyn writes and lives way down in Alabama, and while I think she would laugh …Read More