In celebration of the Orionid meteor showers and this wonderful season – I’m re-releasing a short story I wrote in 2011 called Orion’s Moon. If you bought the Every Witch Way You Can Anthology – then you’ve already read this. But, if you haven’t, enjoy!!! It’s a paranormal romance with a little witchcraft, a little…
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Fall Bucket List
We got our first frost warning last night. So it’s time to fire up the wood stove, heat up the hot chocolate and pull out the fall bucket list. These are some of the things I love to do when the weather gets crisp and the leaves turn gold and red. What would you add…
FREE!!! Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern 1
I released my first “Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern” two years ago today. And as an anniversary gift – Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern 1 will be FREE starting tomorrow (Saturday, October 1st) through October 5th. This is the perfect time to get your friends hooked. 🙂 Here’s a here’s a link to get…
Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern
What could be better than one edition of Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern? How about all three boxed together for your Halloween enjoyment? 🙂 If you haven’t read the first two years of Tales Around the Jack O’Lantern, this is a great opportunity to get all three years at a discount price. Seventeen spooky stories…
This Stuff Smells
Scents. Smells. Fragrances. Olfactory sensations. Sniffs. From the buttery or chocolatey scent of homemade cookies baking in the oven when we step through the door after school, to the pungent fragrance of pine needles when we finally put up the live Christmas trees, we are much more connected to our sense of smell than we…
Woo-Woo Writers
Did you ever hear the old joke about the Christopher Columbus method of typing – I put my fingers down and then discover what I’ve typed? As a writer, I’ve had that kind of experience more than once. And, no, I don’t mean my typing is terrible…although I would never make a great typist, probably…
Dads
I was one of those kids who didn’t have a dad when I was growing up. I have very faint recollections of a tall man wearing a large overcoat with deep pockets that occasionally held candy. But, unfortunately, alcohol became far more important to my father than his eight children and he left us when…
Whooo me? Yes, you!! Red Nose Day, May 26th
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Interrupting cow. Interrupting cow w…. Moo! That was one of my kids’ favorite knock-knock jokes as they were growing up. And we ALWAYS had knock-knock jokes, some made a lot more sense than others. Laughter, jokes and children, they all seem to go together. But do you know what doesn’t…
All the Noise, Noise, Noise, Noise
Noise! It’s all around us. From the soft rumbling of our appliances to the hustle and bustle of traffic. We moved from the city of Chicago – under the O’Hare flight path, several blocks away from the Chicago Northwestern Railroad tracks and only steps away from the Eden’s Expressway – to five acres of grass…
Frayed Edges – A Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery (Book 17) Just released!!!
A bullet shot rings out on the night of the Super Moon and a promising college student is killed. Was it an accident, or did her research into false claims by a bio-tech, agricultural company garner her too much attention? The wrong kind of attention. Mary and Bradley have to find out or Ruth McCredie…