Inspiration Limbo | author’s note
I haven’t started a new writing project in months. I don’t even have any ideas for a new story, at least none that I’m ready to dive into right now. And I’m trying to make […]
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Can I claim this on my taxes? | author’s note
It’s official—GREECE! I’ve made plans to travel to Greece for three weeks next spring, and am so lucky to have my stellar editor and dear friend, who also happens to be my mom, going with […]
Asking Myself WHY | author’s note
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the importance of WHY. I can think of many circumstances in which WHY isn’t all that relevant or useful, such as the age-old question “why doesn’t X like/love/want […]
The Review Ride | author’s note
One of the craziest things about being published is that total strangers out there in the world are actually reading your books—and on top of that, forming opinions about them! This is very surreal. As someone […]
Being In-Between | author’s note
Having gone through some pretty major life transitions lately, I’m feeling very in-between. It isn’t a bad feeling, but it’s uncomfortable in a lot of ways. I feel awfully rudderless, as if floating without a […]
Coming Soon: Paperback Edition of Book 1!
I just sent the first draft of book 9 to my editor for her first read (yay!), and while I know it’s going to need a lot of work in the editing process, including a […]
Losing a friend | author’s note
I’ve been working hard on my latest book over the past month, and the end is definitely in sight. I hope to have it finished within the next week. Sadly, just as this new book […]
The Deep End | author’s note
I haven’t been spending much time on my blog lately, because I’ve become deeply involved in writing my next book. What began as a tiny spark of an idea has turned into 42,000 words and […]
The Writing Itch | author’s note
It’s beginning again: the itch. I’ve started to play around with a tiny baby kernel of an idea for a book. “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written […]
Prowling through the Stacks | author’s note
I have wonderful memories of my hometown public library. The library in Davis, California, where I grew up wasn’t especially big or showy. It’s not an especially big town, and while the University library is […]
Digging up the Past
In my latest book, Beneath These Streets, coming out later this year on Kindle, I had the chance to draw on a really cool part of history: San Francisco’s buried ships. There are ships lying […]
