• Paper back of The Mark of the Artist in a luggage bag

    Ultimate Road Trip Novel

    It’s almost Road Trip season and you need a great book to go along with your miles of travel. 🚗 I admit to being a lover of the road trip. Even with gas prices as insanely high as they are (ami’right?), many people still will hit the roads for their summer road trip. And you…

  • Maisie’s Adventure in Paperback!

    Ta-da! Now Maisie’s Escape is in paperback! I’m so happy with how this short story turned out in print. The cover was very fun to make, and keeps with the same style and theme as the related book The Mark of the Artist. In case you don’t know, Maisie is a side character from my…

  • Earth Day Every Day

    Happy Earth Day to All who celebrate (that should be everyone, there isn’t a Planet B!) I figure there are two options for today: say well we’re doomed, or take a deep breath and keep on fighting for a better, cleaner, greener tomorrow. It ain’t easy, but I’m choosing the second option. Here’s to HOPE,…

  • April Showers

    It’s update time again! Hope you all are enjoying Spring. Author Garden Whoo hoo, it’s planting time here. The family decided to expand our raised bed herb garden since things have been growing really well—so well that we had to transplant a giant California pineapple sage plant out of the beds and back into the…

  • phrase "Writing is political" on lined paper

    Writing is Political

    Let’s get this out in the open: Writing is political. Reading is political. Art is political. What do I mean? Do I mean that by reading my books you’ll have to sit through an onslaught of radical thoughts or overtly themed stories about resistance or something? Nope. Because you won’t see that type of language…

  • Into the Bookshop

    Quick update! Guess what? The Mark of the Artist is now in a bookstore! On Saturday, my book joined many other local authors’ books in Old Haunts Bookshop in Granite Bay. I am so stoked to have my book on the shelf. Hopefully some wandering book lover will stop by for a new read and…