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I write about life in Southern California with a 15 pound Flame Point Siamese guard cat and a ukulele strumming husband.

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Posing

Photographing and Pivoting

Southern Accents

Where I Come From

Summer in the City

Yesterday after working at my writing desk for a few hours, my husband thought I’d just come back from the gym.

Not My Postmaster

Or My President

Giving Credit

Where It's Due

The Rules

I love a good writer’s guide, and Neal Allen’s and Anne Lamott’s Good Writing, 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences is exactly that.

Expectations

And Gratitude

Celebrating the Bookish

And the Mothers

Rebranding

Like most authors these days, I’m deluged with spammy, scammy marketing emails, promising fame and fortune if I simply let them rebrand me and my novels.

Who's the Audience?

Is Anybody Out There?

Book Reports

And book clubs