Author’s Blog

Press Gangs

Elizabeth Donne joins us this week with facts about Royal Navy Press Gangs and the part they play in her novella in Moonlight Madness. My novella, “Always with You,” appears in the Bluestocking Belles’ Halloween-themed anthology, Moonlight Madness, which is available for pre-order until its launch October 15. The price will revert to retail after […]

Not Missing, Honest

Where was I last week? I was in Cape May New Jersey allowing a good friend to do all the driving and wait on me while I rested my shoulder. Two Mondays ago I was pretending it was better than it was. That trip to the airport did me in. I was actually battling some […]

Life and Sunshine

Monday dawns again to a bright sunny day and an aching shoulder. Again. I’ve been back to my physical therapy exercises and they help for a while. I had a few days when both shoulders, my elbows and my hands ached. I have no idea why, but such is life and it impacts writing. At […]

Does Fall Start Here?

Ah, Labor Day. Pools close. Schools are open. Summer is over? The Autumn Equinox is on September 22, when the sun will be over the equator and days and nights will be exactly equal. That has always worked for me. We have two weeks to go! On the other hand, Meteorological Autumn begins September 1. […]

Why I Named My Heroine After a Mongoose

This week Rue Allyn joins us with some literary facts behind her fiction: why she named her female character after a male mongoose. According to Google’s AI, “Rikky is a feminine name that evolved as a diminutive or variant spelling of Ricki, which itself originated as a nickname for names like Erica, Richelle, or Patricia.” However, […]