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...

Buy NOW! Happiness, let alone bliss, is definitely a complex experience that can be tricky to attain. Just check the 2024 World...

by Joanna Kadish Joanna Kadish writes beautifully about the brutal truths of living a thousand lives in a single lifetime in FLIRTING...

Please join me and so many other fantastic fellow historical fiction writers for this fun holiday event! I’ll be online from 11 - 2 p.m....

Buy NOW! Mary Donahue, the 15-year-old protagonist of my novel, WINTER LIGHT, which takes place in 1978-79 Chicago, listens to a lot of...

By Eleanor Vincent Reading Eleanor Vincent’s just-released memoir DISCONNECTED: PORTRAIT OF A NEURODIVERSE MARRIAGE , about navigating...

A fan of poetry, I wanted to feature the work of Ogbonna Osita Daniel , a young poet who lives in Nigeria and writes under the psyeudonym...

Every time I go to the coast, I see these dudes sitting in this almost-dead tree, staring out at the ocean. They’re cormorants, but their...

Buy NOW! It’s easy to blame others. It’s harder to look at what went wrong and find ways to repair the damage and move on. The former...

I had the pleasure of attending a book talk here in CA where Jen Lang (left) spoke beautifully about her newest flash memoir, LANDED: A...

Buy NOW! This is a photo of a “supercell” from the Wikipedia page about a particularly rare and deadly “rotating thunderstorm”...

I love helping other authors, so by forwarding a Roz Morris interview with artist and author Alycia Vreeland (her illustration...

Happy birthday to my oldest sister, Dee (middle)! I say “oldest,” but there’s only 3 years difference between us, with my sister, Sue...