After three novels and five decades of marriage, I have a few things to say about long love. Not the falling into kind, but the staying in kind. I’ve been [...]
One of the hazards of writing historical fiction is the research rabbit hole. These detours can last minutes or entire days, and they pull you away from the story you [...]
As an author, it seems there is always so much work to be done that it can be easy to forget to stop and celebrate the wins and milestones along [...]
Here’s something no one tells you about writing a historical novel series: the research never really ends. Neither, apparently, does the writing. This fall will mark the publication of Songs [...]
Four days had passed since we’d seen each other, yet it seemed like a month. Then, I heard a child’s delighted cry—“Gigi!” My grandson ran into my arms, almost knocking [...]
Some stories won’t let you go. For me, one of those stories is the night Daniel Read Anthony received a gunshot to his neck—and lived. That single moment became the [...]
Some writers climb mountains for research. I seem to take a more… involuntary approach. When I wrote my first novel for children, it featured a dramatic tumble off a horse. [...]
Valentine’s Day often portrays modern romance as private and uninterrupted—two people alone, speaking freely, maybe even holding hands without witnesses. However, it wasn’t always so, as writing Secrets to the [...]
Every January at our church, we receive a Star Word—a single quality to sit with all year, something to meditate on, resist, or grow into. Mine this year is intuition. [...]
As Americans witness the escalation of violence in cities far from our own borders, I can’t help recalling another period when isolated clashes hardened into full-scale war. This is Part [...]
