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February 23, 2015
Like A Super Trouper
I cannot hear the opening harmonies of this song with being a kid again, in my parents’ living room, where those Swedish angels’ voices poured out of a pair of boxy Ohm speakers. The tiny thump of the needle on the vinyl gave me such a thrill, as did the …
February 18, 2015
Botched
Herheart banged. Where wasthe damn thing? Of all the receipts to lose.No matter. The train’s iron chantey rolled her past the empty platform. He’d never know. “Lost something?” The proffered slip. Those eyes, dead like a shark’s. Everything, yes.
The Trouble With Henry: A Review
Reading. It’s like a revelation. It IS a revelation. I have devoured two novels in the span of five days, and it’s euphoric. I haven’t read like this in so long. I’ve been so busy with writing and editing books and meeting publishing deadlines. Now that I have a lull, …
February 16, 2015
Fall In Love With Thornton: Foolish Things
Welcome to Fall In Love With Thornton, a series of posts about the world of the Thornton Vermont stories and novels. I have always been a sucker for a series. The idea that as a reader, having fallen in love with characters and places, Idon’t have to say goodbye just …
February 13, 2015
A Poison Tree: A Review
Somewhere in the vicinity of a year ago, John Dolan graciously offered me a review copy of his third novel in the Time, Blood and Karma series: A Poison Tree. Long-time readers here might recall that Mr. Dolan’s hero, David Braddock, has a devious way of burrowing under my skin. …
February 11, 2015
Fall In Love With Thornton: The Foote Farm Mansion
Welcome to Fall In Love With Thornton, a series of posts about the world of the Thornton Vermont stories and novels. When I was a student at Middlebury College, I drove out west of campus on Route 125 a fair amount. Joyriding, for the most part, but sometimes on an …
February 9, 2015
Fall in Love With Thornton: It’s A Real Town!
Welcome to Fall In Love With Thornton, a series of posts about the world of the Thornton Vermont stories and novels. Okay, it’s not really real. But it’s closely based on a real town. Write what you know. I graduated from Middlebury College in 1999. For four incredible years, I …
February 5, 2015
It’s Official: Damselfly Inn launches April 13, 2015!
Coming in paperback and for Kindle, April 13, 2015, From Bannerwing Books! The picturesque college town of Thornton, Vermont is the perfect place to open an inn. Or so Nan Grady thinks until a late summer storm drops a tree branch through her roof and local contractor Joss Fuller into …
January 7, 2015
It’s Never Enough
You know those songs that stop you cold? Like, you’re at your day job, plodding along at your task, and the song comes on and suddenly you’re listening and singing and have no idea whatsoever what you were doing before the song started? Me neither…
January 6, 2015
Let’s Sparkle in 2015!
Admittedly, it’s not Pantone’s Color of the Year, Marsala (which I love), but I do have something happy to share. I wasn’t going to have a 2015 Word. Fearless kind of found me last year, and became a driving force in a few of my biggest choices last year, but …
