Return to Truckee
November 2022 This autumnal journey is one that I’d planned to undertake and one that is quite unexpected. My writing of SILVER DAGGER...
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Sep 5, 2022
Backstory - Silver Dagger
Labor Day 2022 Back in Time to Truckee The name of a folk song that I’d heard during my childhood formed, from the very start, the title...
Aug 21, 2022
Barbed Wire & Forked Tongues
8 October 2022 Before the settling of the American West was settled, barbed wire formed the physical closing of the range. This cruelly...
Jul 31, 2022
Backstory - The Silent Heart
31 July 2022 THE SILENT HEART — in draft form — has been around for a long time in my life, in my paper files, in my computer files....
May 2, 2022
Notes of The Last Waltz
2 May 2022 My Northern French novel is the fictional story that emerged within my writing of THE DAWN. I had to extract it from the...
Mar 28, 2022
Backstory - Shadow
Spring 2022 On Sunday, 9 January 2022, I made an entry in my personal journal: Started the Draft of SHADOW this afternoon. Tossed out the...
Jan 13, 2022
Taking the Big Prize
13 January 2022 I am up to my ears in writing fiction this week. My first Western novel SHADOW is casting quite a big penumbra in my life...
Feb 1, 2018
The Quintet - The Widower and Other Short Stories
February 2018 As best as I can remember, three of these stories were written in the space of 4 days, post mid-January 2018, during a...
Jun 27, 2017
Backstory - Point of the Sword
The Summer of 2017 The summer of 2017 started as a more-or-less typical summer, hot-beyond-belief and open to unscheduled fun. I always...
Feb 2, 2014
Some of the Story Behind the Stories
February 2014 My husband and family have been and continue to be the highest priorities in my life. They have inspired me to develop my...
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