Audiobook Adventures

August 22, 2021 Book marketing, Publishing business, Writing life

I’ve been making some courageous decisions about my books lately. The most recent of them was deciding to get a good audiobook made of my forthcoming novel, The Portraitist: a Novel ... Read more

Publication Day for THE PARIS AFFAIR!

September 29, 2020 Publishing business, Writing life, Young Adult

Yes, it’s finally the day! The book is available everywhere books are sold. This is the third in my Theresa Schurman historical mystery series. That makes it an actual series ... Read more

Podcasting is fun. Who knew?

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 Podcasting, Publishing business

I’ve been thinking about podcasting for many months. I haven’t done anything about it until recently because I’ve been so busy with other things, and I wasn’t up for another ... Read more

My answer to “The Article”

September 18, 2019 Publishing business, Writing life

By now most writers who follow articles about writing on Medium.com (and many who don’t) have read and freaked out about “The Article:” “How to Lose a Third of a ... Read more

What I learned by attending BookCon

June 2, 2019 Publishing business, Soul searching, Writing life

I’d never been to BookCon before. The book conferences I’ve attended only include BookExpo America (about 10 years ago), which is really a trade conference, and a few Historical Novel ... Read more

The Publishing Rollercoaster

May 14, 2019 Publishing business, Writing life

I see on quick glance that my blog is saturated with images of Listen to the Wind, my book that just came out. So I’ll give you a different image, one ... Read more

Release Day for LISTEN TO THE WIND!

April 22, 2019April 21, 2019 Publishing business, Writing life

It’s been seven years since I had a book published. Fourteen years since I started writing Listen to the Wind. It makes me so happy to have a book coming out ... Read more

Publishing Trials, Tribulations, and Thrills

April 8, 2019 Publishing business, Writing life

What strikes me first is how much the publishing process has changed since 2012, when my last book was published. Granted, that was with a mainstream publisher (Bloomsbury USA Children’s), ... Read more

Listen to the Wind blog tour!

March 23, 2019 Publishing business, Writing life

It’s all getting very real. I’ve been doing the kinds of things I probably should have done with my books published by big publishers. But who really knew then? For ... Read more

So, how’s it going with the publishing?

March 10, 2019 Publishing business, Writing life

It occurs to me that people out there might be interested in reading about my journey as an author whose books are being published by a small press So I ... Read more