Backstories

Nov 8, 2022

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...

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...