How to Cook a Husband As Mr Glass said of the hare, you must first catch him. Having done so, the mode of cooking him, so as to make a good dish of him, is as follows. Many good husbands are spoiled in the cooking; some women go about it as if their husbands were bladders, and blow them up. …
Large Print & a New Cover!
It’s always interesting to me when another edition of a novel has a new cover. So, I’m pleased to introduce Thorndike’s large print edition in hardback for Tidewater Bride! It releases this month and I’m especially thrilled to see it on library shelves. I always order one as I’m fond of hardbacks. So sturdy & enduring! Here’s Selah and Jamestown …
Pages & pages
The pages for A HEART ADRIFT are in to my publisher & this novel will soon be off to print! THE END for me is the beginning for you. My desk is a little lighter and now & I can return to the Scottish novel releasing next & begin researching #15… My publisher has created beautiful signed bookplates for pre-orders …
Colonial American Chocolate
Writing a book always puts me back in the classroom even if I think I have a good understanding of something. In my frontier novels, my heroines are so busy trying to stay alive they don’t have time for a trade or occupation though they are usually expert survivalists. So while writing A Heart Adrift set in both York and Williamsburg, …
Ginger
Today I woke up and my first thought was, “I don’t want to live in a world without Ginger.” I don’t usually post something like this in my journal here but amid a pandemic that has suddenly turned personal, I can’t help but write in the hope it might help someone else whose heart is broken. Yesterday my dear friend …
Cover Reveal!
So happy to reveal the cover for my 13th historical novel releasing January 4th, 2020, compliments of my publisher, Revell. Thanks also for the novel excerpt & video! E-reader, Audio, & Large Print versions coming soon… It is 1755, and the threat of war with France looms over colonial York, Virginia. Chocolatier Esmée Shaw is fighting her own battle of …
First Line A HEART ADRIFT
Cover countdown…
Henri Lennox
Since you’ve met our heroine in the prior post, time for our privateer! Truth be told, I like my heroes more than my heroines. Maybe that comes from raising boys but I find men wonderfully uncomplicated & straightforward like our hero, Henri Lennox. His name also has a French flair. Our heroine even pronounces it correctly – AWN-ree – which …
Esmée Shaw
At long last ’tis cover reveal week and I thought we’d have a little fun first by way of character introductions. So without further ado, here’s a peek into those pages of A Heart Adrift… Creating a new heroine is always a joy & a challenge. I begin with a name, one that is period-appropriate but not quite as common …
Reader Interest Survey!
Dear readers, I would love to get to know you a bit better! To help with that, my publisher, Revell, put together a short survey for you to share a bit more about your interests and hobbies. It should only take a few minutes to complete, and the best part is that everyone who responds can enter a special giveaway …









