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Undoing Time Is Out Now!

Book 3 in the Timegathering Series covers adventure, romance, self-discovery and Colonial history I’m thrilled to bring out a new time travel story in my series. Undoing Time takes a young woman whose plans for a happy married life have just been decimated and brings her to present-day Florence, Italy, where she plans to drown … Read more "Undoing Time Is Out Now!"

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Strong Women in Fiction – Free Books to get by 12/31/21

I have some special, time-limited deals to offer you! For your winter reading, the link below leads to novels featuring strong women. ALL FREE — when you sign up for the author’s newsletter. Offer deadline: December 31, 2021. For me, reading rekindles the fires of inspiration, love, and hope. I especially love reading in the … Read more "Strong Women in Fiction – Free Books to get by 12/31/21"

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Time Travel in a World Like Ours

In my magical realism world, people are born with a gene that allows them to slip through time. Like all genes, the timegathering gene expresses itself differently in different people, and behaves differently because of environment and natural modifications. For example, the time traveling tour guide that threads all the Timegathering Series novels together, George … Read more "Time Travel in a World Like Ours"

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Self-publishing Your NaNoWriMo Book

Self-publishing your NaNoWriMo book may be easier than you think -- and take a lot longer than you expect. The above novels took me an average of one year to draft and another year to edit and polish, develop cover art and marketing materials, and launch. They each required an investment of money and time, and of the two, time was the more expensive investement -- well beyond the month of November.

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National Novel Writing Month & Choosing a Book Idea

National Novel Writing Month We’re in the international month of goal-oriented novel writing called National Novel Writing Month, or as some of us veterans call it, NaNoWriMo. I’m not in a place to race into the many words of a new novel. I’m working toward finishing edits on my next, Undoing Time, the story of … Read more "National Novel Writing Month & Choosing a Book Idea"

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Sample of Undoing Time, new in Timegathering Series

UNDOING TIME IS OUT!The Timegathering Series #3 Read sample chapters of the newest book in the Timegathering Series below.  For more on time travel, women’s fiction, and writing tips, please sign up for my newsletter. I send news about once a month — along with previews, notes on work-in-progress, plus discounts and special offers. Chapter...

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Read a sample of my new time travel novel

I’ve been dying to share a sample of my new time travel novel. At last, I’m far enough to show you the opening pages! I polled my newsletter subscribers about proposed titles, and a winner emerged. I’ll share that later, when I show you the new cover — in process! If you enjoy this sample, … Read more "Read a sample of my new time travel novel"

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Healing My Heart at the Pace of Poetry

I don’t like the term “heart attack”. I’m calling what happened to me on May 27, 2021 my heart event. I experienced sudden, sharp pain in the region of my heart and radiating down my arm. Like many people, I ignored it at first — because after I lay down, it went away. And now …

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4th of July – Celebrating Liberty and Equality

As we celebrate in the U.S. our national holiday, I’m thinking about what it is we’re celebrating. I’m especially interested in the American Revolution. It figures in my newest time travel novel (hopefully out in 2022). What are the fundamental concepts for which this country was founded?  America was founded on what in 1776 was …

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Women’s Fiction Day, 2021

What is Women’s Fiction Day? It’s an annual celebration, begun by the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. Its purpose is to celebrate women’s fiction, which the WFWA defines as: layered stories in which the plot is driven by the main character’s emotional journey. I think of women’s fiction as a story driven by a character’s journey to …

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