The "Frequently Asked Questions" Videos

The contest continues! Win a vacation on Topsail Island and help me celebrate my 20 years as an author by clicking here to learn more. You may enter once a day.   The short videos John and I made are now up on the video page of my website. I created these to address the questions I’m…

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Happy Holiday!

                                I wish my readers who celebrate Easter or Passover a joyful time with family and friends. My California granddaughter, CC, is in town for the festivities. She’s now fifteen months old and a smiley little thing. I gave her this little…

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While I Was Away

Okay, this has nothing whatsoever to do with writing, unless you count the fact that I was away on a writing retreat when this picture was taken. This is just pure grandma indulgence. While I was gone, John invited my stepdaughter and her two little boys over for a photo shoot. I love this picture…

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Eating Our Way Through New Jersey

  As I wait to hear on my latest book proposal, John and I decided to take a pre-holiday, visiting-relatives-trip to New York and New Jersey. It’s been great, complete with a (small) snowstorm last night. Although John grew up in Virginia, many of his relatives are on Long Island, and I lived in  New Jersey until…

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What Do You See?

The last time John and I were on Topsail Island, we were having dinner in a restaurant when John suddenly said, “Do you see that waitress over there? That’s Dawn.” I figured he must mean the character Dawn in my latest book, Before the Storm. I turned to look at the waitress. She was a little…

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Barefoot Contessa Photo Adventures

I’ve taken a tiny break from the blog as I train myself in using my new Blackberry, along with Outlook, Word and a few other torturous inventions designed to move me into the twenty-first century. So while I’m doing that, I thought I’d share this video John made for Barefoot Contessa Photo Adventures, nature photography…

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