I’m delighted to be supporting Authors for Indies on Saturday May 2nd, 2015. Independent bookstores have always pleased my senses and filled me with hope. There’s that slightly earthy smell of ink, paper, and glue when one first opens the door. I usually pause, take a breath, and then register the quiet. Only then do I take in…
Writing time has been limited of late as I have tended to gardens, and prepared for the book launch. However, these activities have not stopped me from trying to define my elderly female characters in The Memory Boxes more clearly. They are always at the edges of my mind. The result is that I have been “clipping”…
It is a curious experience to be in the simultaneous process of launching a book and beginning work on a second project. This time I trust that the characters will guide me through their stories. It is a different stance than the one I took with Autumn’s Grace. During that first encounter with writing fiction, I remember…
