In this excerpt from THE WILD IMPOSSIBILITY, the protagonist, Kira, has the second of many "daytime dreams," as she calls them—vivid...

Book blogger Randee Green, author of the Carrie Shatner mystery series, was kind enough to give me a presence on her site. Check out this...

Weddings are fantasies for some people, a little girl’s dream come true, every detail masterminded—the perfect dress, flowers chosen for...

Do you remember your first love? Not a crush on a kid in elementary school or the fantasy of being with a celebrity, but real love for...

In The Wild Impossibility, a backyard pond, home to koi and watched over by a statue of the Virgin Mary, is a key location for the book’s...

When does a piece of clothing become a costume? In a sense, clothing is always a costume, because every garment we wear projects an image...

Place. For me it’s one of the most important—and enjoyable—parts of writing fiction. This is where a writer can let loose with sensory...

Most of us, by the time we get to a certain point in life, have sat with a dying loved one, clasping their hand, trying to comprehend...

When was the last time a sense of freedom made you feel as if you’d reinvented yourself? That’s what happens to 16-year-old Maddalena in...

Sometimes I forget I live in a fairytale place, walking with my thoughts buried in the mundane or simply failing to notice what has...

This is the third image in the series of illustrations of my novel, THE WILD IMPOSSIBILITY. (Note: someone recently asked me if these...

This is the second image in the series of illustrations of my novel, THE WILD IMPOSSIBILITY. It’s a moment from a scene in a neonatal...

Excited (and terrified) to say that an interview with me, rambling about my unconventional path to writing, among other things, is now up...

Yesterday a friend and I went to Lago Trasimeno and took a ferry ride from Passagnano sul Trasimeno to Isola Maggiore. For me, it was a...

This was the view from my apartment early this morning—beautiful, no? Yesterday's snowfall was the first I've experienced at my home in...

To celebrate the upcoming publication of my novel, THE WILD IMPOSSIBILITY, I’ve commissioned watercolor sketches of moments in the book....

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