Beckham 101 is my third installment from the Kate and Robert chronicles. This is a six book series all together. Each book in my series continues to piece together more of the mystery between my characters as they learn to navigate life, after a quick courtship, as a newly wedded couple. I was inspired to…
I never really wanted to go to Alaska BAK, Before Adventuresome Kids. San Francisco and New York? Sure. London? Check. Rome and Paris? Absolutely. Alaska? Not so much. That is, until my daughter insisted on a trip that led to my son volunteering at Denali National Park. Each time I went back to Alaska, I…
The idea for Wild Within came because I took an exercise class with a gregarious instructor and a nervous ex-wife. The background is a little complicated. The instructor knew I’d written a memoir, knew a woman in class who had a fiction-writing son and ex-husband, and this all led to my attending a father-son book…
The idea for Hidden Shadows began when I discovered an isolated, rugged section of the Texas Hill Country called Willow City. I loved the craggy, impossible hills, the deep canyons, the low-lying meadows. It felt as though I had been tossed back in time. Not a house was in sight, not a single barn. Homes…
I never thought in a million years that I would become a writer. I used to struggle writing essays at school and couldn’t comprehend how anyone could write a book! But four years ago, after giving up teaching to look after three small children, I was trawling Amazon for a good read and struggled to…
NAKED IN HAVANA started with a letter from one of my readers: ‘… I would also truly love to learn what REALLY happened in the 50’s with Cuba. Something tells me that it wasn’t truly like what the teachers told us in school in Canada. I read a fictional book a long time ago about Marilyn, John,…
Growing up, I learned there were a few of us who might be termed WWII collateral damage—the offspring of women and innocent young men who went off to war. None of these women expected to become mothers; the stresses and uncertainties of war spurred them to compassion for the men who feared they would not…
Come with me to a corner of England more known for sheep than people… Sometimes you fall in love with a place. Never mind that it has not been in existence for several hundred years, or at least not in the family anymore. But it was once. Tony Clegg-Hill (original name Huel) was the previous…
I enjoyed writing how the relationship between Charlotte and Atakan, my heroine and hero from Golden Chariot, developed over the course of the story. When the book ended, they had just come together as a couple. I knew I wanted to bring them back in Byzantine Gold and give the reader a chance to see…
It’s a common question as to where my inspiration came from to write Absolute Obstruction and my answer is even more common. Absolute Obstruction is the second in the Absolute Series and while finishing up the first, it became quite clear that Michael and Rose’s story was not yet complete. They continued to take centre…
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