An Armchair Adventure for Your Book Club
Looking for Your Next Book Club Pick? Consider a Two-Fer for an Adventurous Discussion Wander & Wonder What better way to embrace a sense of wanderlust than to cozy up in a favorite armchair and set off to an unknown destination? For one of your next book club meetings, how about challenging the group to…
Read MoreWander. Wonder. Discover. – September 2026 Updates
October 2026 Wander. Wonder. Discover. I’m two weeks in from my arrival back home after the most amazing trip to London and Edinburgh with another top-notch tour organized by John Shors Travel. They are the same company that I traveled to France with last year, so I had clear expectations that this would also be a…
Read MoreDeeply Satisfying Discussions for Your Book Club
Looking for Your Next Book Club Pick? Consider This One for Deeply Satisfying Discussions I am the reason my sister is dead. Jolie-Mae Buckley doesn’t think her heart can ever heal. Two years ago, she graduated from college summa cum laude and was on track for medical school. Drowning in guilt after a disastrous mistake…
Read MoreMemories, Moments, and More 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 – August 2026 Updates
Memories, Moments, and More So many memories and special moments in my life formed in the months of August and September. Most importantly, on August 16th my husband and I celebrated our 40th anniversary. Look at us – so young!! I wish I could say I was a teen bride, but no after dating three years while…
Read MorePreserving Research Materials from Grandma’s Attic
Preserving Research Materials from Grandma’s Attic In our digital age of record keeping, photography, e-books, AI, and privacy controls, what will access to firsthand accounts of history look like for the next generation of historical fiction writers? With most of the Greatest Generation gone, the “Depression babies,” who seemingly saved everything, are Boomers’ attics, basements, and storage units filled to the same extent with personal histories stored in diaries,…
Read MoreLooking for Your Next Book Club Pick? Consider This One for Deep Discussions about Personal Choices
Recommended Book Club Pick ABANDONING THE SCRIPT(opens in new tab) Lucy never wanted the life that’s been thrust upon her-the wedding band or the baby in the crib. A woman(opens in new tab) of ambition, she longs to pursue her dreams on stage, but her husband insists on locking her in a gilded cage under his…
Read MoreLooking for Your Next Book Club Pick? Consider This One for Pure Hilarity and Enjoyment
Recommended Book Club Pick The Night Nurse and the Jewel Thief (opens in new tab) Nancy Norman’s world collapses when a fire destroys everything she owns. The glamour-obsessed homecare nurse faces an impossible choice: retire with nothing-or take one last night shift that could change everything. She takes the job. Her assignment leads her to an…
Read MoreParades, Pop-Ups, & Planes – July Adventures
March On! I got an extra mile of steps in on July Fourth by marching in our town’s home-grown parade. Not just anyone can march, you have to have either a float or music of some kind or belong to an organized group. I threw some extra red-white-blue garland around Zoe the grandpup’s harness and leash and…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day 2025
“I believe that women’s history and women’s stories are still under-told, which means that there’s a hunger for them.” – Bestselling author of THE RED TENT, Anita Diamant. I agree, Anita, and I aim to do something about that hunger with my #31titleswomeninhistory literary citizenship program—a curated list of thirty-one titles, chosen to educate…
Read MoreWhy Readers Love Historical Fiction
Today, the day of “love”, seems appropriate to share a few thoughts about why I LOVE HISTORICAL FICTION and why other readers do as well. As the author of two novels defined as historical fiction, I chose the genre believing that I would reach more readers with the story of the Woman’s Medical College of…
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