So happy to report that Free Spirits won the Gold Medal in Historical Fiction in the 2024 Colorado Independent Publishers Association Awards!
So happy to report that Free Spirits won the Gold Medal in Historical Fiction in the 2024 Colorado Independent Publishers Association Awards!
My seventh book, Harmony’s Peace & Joy, will launch September 23 at 6:30 at Walworth Memorial Library. It’s a contemporary novel featuring white deer and wisdom, broken bowls and healing, and an Olympic-styled family motto and sibling rivalry. All are invited, and light refreshments will be served after a short talk introducing the book and […]
Last fall I found an old essay, written when I was 50, the same week that I saw a Writers’ Digest call for entries in its Personal Essay contest, I sent in “Your Rings and Your Wallet,” about a 50th birthday gift–a luxurious day at a luxury spa–which, in an eventually humorous way, was anything […]
Happy New Year! In December, the first chapter of my novel-in-progress was awarded Silver in the Off Campus Writers’ Workshop “Finest Five” contest. In fact, this first chapter is only three pages. The novel, Markers, raises the issue of whether one wants to know if they have a fatal disease, and whether their future partner […]
Happy to report that Donna Steele Productions’ premiere of Saluting the Sun as a stage musical was awarded an Illinois Arts Council matching grant! You can help through Go Fund Me, under Donna Steele or Saluting the Sun (which was my third novel).
Thrilled that actress, director and retired Founder of Steel Beam Theater, Chicago, Donna Steele, is producing a new musical, based on my third novel, Saluting the Sun, at The Edge Theater at 5451 Broadway in Chicago from November 24 to December 3. Vocal artist and voice/drama teacher Amy Steele composed the music. I understand they […]
If you are one of the 160,000 members of the ACBL, my bridge short story, “Partnership Agreements” just came out in the May issue of the Bridge Bulletin. This summer I will post the story for nonmembers when it is no longer current.
Happy to report that my story, Partnership Agreements, will be published in the American Contract Bridge League’s Bridge Bulletin in May. The Bulletin, with a circulation of 160,000, doesn’t usually print fiction, but this story has so much truth in it, and a lesson or two about the key to a successful competitive bridge partnership: […]
My short essay, “Taking the Self Out of Self-Publishing” appears today on the Off Campus Writers’ blog, and tells the story of how a chance encounter with a homeless kid led to not only a novel (Warming Up) and a story collection (Kind Eyes) but also a touching reconnection with a high school classmate who […]
