I like to think of myself as a happy person, and the vast majority of people I know would hopefully agree. I laugh a lot, admittedly at silly things because I have what my husband long-identified as a “quirky” sense of humour, and I have a stack of favourite jokes....
1:17 a.m. on Friday, October 1, 2004London, England Steve took a sip of the stagnant coffee someone gave him after he arrived at New Scotland Yard from the hospital. The facility wasn’t the creepy Elizabethan building he imagined after watching movies as a kid....
Cross Her Heart by Melinda Leigh is action-packed. This first in a series has great characters working together to solve a murder mystery. It is a tale of lies, deceit, abuse, jealousy, guilt, blackmail, and murder along with heartbreak scenes about family. The main...
Since my childhood I had someone who constantly whispering in my ear, saying that what I was doing was not worth a bit. Everyone hears a similar voice in their worst moments, but in my case the voice was perennial. In my golden years, that voice made me jump like a...
Shattering Glass contains essays, interviews, conversations, and short fiction by over 35 well-known writers
Normally thought of as a fly-over state, my home state of Iowa has been a wonderful place to grow up and then raise our three children. I love it so much that all of my novels are set here and include a mix of real and fictionalized Iowa locales. In celebration of my...
