• The Cutting Room Floor

    Walking the Portuguese Camino, beside the Atlantic Ocean, reminded me of a scene we cut from Camino Child, cut for length and plot. Summer (our protagonist) sleeps on a beach. She wakes up to several feet surrounding her, surfer’s feet.  As you wait for your copy of Camino Child to arrive, I hope you enjoy this little slice of her life on Camino. Random beach, north coast of SpainOctober 13, 2019 Voices? Dull voices weave through my senses. An odd smell scratches old memories.  In the distance waves gurgle ashore. A ridiculously bright light bores through thin slits in my eyelids.  That pungent, What-is-that? smell, mixed with the salty, fishy scents of low…

  • Cover Reveal

    It was a close thing, a close race. Choosing the cover art for my new novel, Camino Child, was one of the hardest parts of this project. In general, writers liked the “red” version, and readers liked the “blue” version. In the end, my fifteen-year-old granddaughter broke a virtual tie. The blue (the dominant color in this cover) version it shall be, then. Camino Child will release at Amazon.com on October 4th. Pre-orders will open in the next two weeks. Keep a watchful eye for that announcement, coming soon.