Naturally Spoken

One of my New Year's resolutions was to make time every week to read more books, which I tend not to do when I'm fully absorbed...

To honor CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK I’m sharing my daily picks for the best animal-themed children’s books (with the help of our dog, Lucy)....

ONE BOOK AT A TIME I was just talking about the power of state book awards with Rich, and how once your novel gets on a list, peo...

CONTEST! WIN a signed hardback copy of LITTLE JOE along with a blue ribbon bookmark! In LITTLE JOE, Eli’s father, Chet Stegner, showed his...

When the British Columbia SPCA chose LITTLE JOE as its book pick last year, I went and gave Lucy a great big hug. Lucy is our eleven-year-o...

Well, I now officially feel like I live in an snow home. Being from Canada, my American friends often joke that I must've lived in one a...

Slowly but surely, like the steady stream of snow that keeps accumulating out my window, I am navigating my way into the social media a...

When I began writing LITTLE JOE, I knew the calf would be born on Christmas Eve. I wanted the barn to be filled with hope and the opportun...

Saturday was an exciting afternoon for Rich and I. We signed our books at Borders in Keene and was it busy!Right by the checkout line, we w...

This weekend Rich and I were guest speakers at the Monadnock Writers Group, a cast of nearly three dozen burgeoning writers who get togethe...

Little Joe's "Blue Ribbon Tour" hit Pennsylvania the first weekend in November and it was really great for Rich and I to visi...

Our second book signing exceeded my expectations. Last Saturday, my husband Rich and I were at the Toadstool Bookshop in Keene. Thirty-five ...

This weekend was quite exciting. I had my first book signing for Little Joe at Water Street Books in Exeter. Rich, my husband, was right alo...

The first book signing for Little Joe is this Saturday, August 28th, 11 am at Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, New Hampshire. I'll be ...

This week Little Joe launched in bookstores. I was so excited I couldn’t sleep the night before. When I got up earlier than the dawn, someho...

In the morning I woke up to the sound of flutes. When I looked out the window-- the one that doesn’t have an air conditioner since this heat...