Congratulations to David Robson of Robson Design and Susie Isaacs of publisher Ampersand, Inc., on Third Place in the Colorado Independent Press Association’s EVVY  Awards for Best Cover.  One for the Ark was the only fiction cover to place in this category in this twenty-five year old contest. David also designed the cover of Saluting...Read More

              So happy to announce that ONE FOR THE ARK won the BRONZE in the Foreword Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards.   I am grateful to my publisher, Susie Isaacs of Ampersand, Inc., designer David Robson of Robson Design, editor David Bloom, writing teacher Fred Shafer, proofreader Marian...Read More

Three for three! Happy to announce that One for the Ark is a 2016 national #ForewordINDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in General Fiction. Warming Up was a finalist in 2013 and Saluting the Sun in 2015. Big winner to be announced June 24 at the American Library Association in Chicago. Hope springs eternal! ...Read More

One for the Ark is a Round One Finalist in the 2017 Illinois Soon To Be Famous Author Project sponsored by the Illinois Library Association.   Got my fingers crossed for the March 6 announcement of the 3 Finalists. My second novel, Warming Up, was a Top 3 Finalist in the inaugural STBF Project in 2013.  I...Read More

We had the chance this week to celebrate with Erin Goseer Mitchell the publication of her second book, From Colored to Black, A Bittersweet Journey (Ampersand, 2016).  At a reading we hosted for her, one guest called it a chance to meet “living history.”  She read a story called “Grandma Tucker’s Red Piano,” and he...Read More

I’m so grateful to so many who have written me to tell me how much you enjoyed ONE FOR THE ARK.  So I am reluctant to ask for a smidge more of your time, but it would really help me (or so the industry wisdom has it) if you would review OFTA at amazon.com and/or...Read More

I recently attended the Oswego Literary Festival at the beautiful Oswego Library District Oswego Campus.  Forty-six authors were there to hawk their works, but I doubt that we sold 46 books among us.  This could be depressing.  OK, it is depressing.  But we still made lemonade.Read More

  We officially launch my fourth novel, ONE FOR THE ARK today.   It’s a good read at election time, as a conservative mayor of a small town and his liberal activist wife confront several situations too conservative for him and too liberal, even for her!   ONE FOR THE ARK is available on amazon,com. We also...Read More

“Lassie,” “Maude,” and “The Monkees” TV shows all premiered on this day, proving–if it needed proving–that, as T.C. Boyle says, “anything can make a story,” and there is, indeed, an audience for everything. Looking forward to meeting you, the audience for my next novel, One for the Ark, officially launching next week. Who I think...Read More

I’ve seen the first copies of ONE FOR THE ARK (official launch September 19) and I have to say it’s a thrill. (It’s live today on amazon.com, so you can be among the first to preview a copy.)  I always worry a little when the first copies arrive and I reread the acknowledgements, knowing that...Read More