Watch now! A fellow author and friend of mine, John McCaffrey , had a great idea for a YouTube podcast: ask people, “Who’s the most...

While at AWP2025 recently, a woman told me about The Story Graph and said it’s like Goodreads , the book reader/reviewer site owned by...

During the process of writing BLISS ROAD , a memoir about my undiagnosed autistic dad, I went on a mountain biking trip about two hours...

AWP 2025 I’m really looking forward to seeing my fellow Vine Leaves Press authors and other friends at this year’s Association of...

Buy NOW! When taking part in the American Historical Novel Facebook page holiday giveaway some months ago, I asked readers who their...

Contact EJ “If a TV show gets produced, it’s a miracle.” When EJ DeBrun said those words while speaking on a panel at the San Francisco...

I just started the developmental edit of SCATTERED LIGHT (published by Vine Leaves Press Nov. 2025), the Mary Donahue sequel to WINTER...

You gotta love your sisters! Or at least I do mine. They and their book club have chosen my book, THE FALCON, THE WOLF AND THE...

1978 was my freshman year at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, IL. I’ll admit I was pretty straight-laced, so I would have...

by Cordelia Biddle LISTEN TO ME by Cordelia Frances Biddle is an amazingly inventive book! The author writes from the viewpoint of many...

by Cordelia Frances Biddle LISTEN TO ME an amazingly inventive book! Author Cordelia Frances Biddle writes from the viewpoint of many...

When working on my memoir, BLISS ROAD ( Vine Leaves Press ), one of my early readers asked if narcissism and Autism Spectrum Disorder ...

Buy NOW! I started writing THE WIND THIEF before the changing climate started bringing us the more extreme weather phenomenons of our...

Buy NOW! Over the years I’ve had the great fortune to read books written by writers who’ve used my book to create fantastic characters...

Buy NOW! While camping beside a lake, I once woke to the sound of a loon. It was one of the eeriest, most beautiful sounds I’ve ever...

Another year coming, and so many great ways to help the world! I’m throwing my energy into helping fellow authors succeed with their...

I loved meeting so many of you this year, and keeping up with those of you whom I’ve known for a long time now. Whatever your...

Buy NOW! Winter is most definitely the time to think about Mary Donahue, who, at the age of 15, is heading into the blizzard winter of...

Happy New Year to all of you! Here’s what’s on my reading list (the links are through Bookshop.org , so purchases benefit independent...

Who’s the woman warrior in your life? That’s the question I asked the women who participated in the American Historical Novels Facebook...