Category: BOOK RECOMENDATIONS

While revising stories for Animal Kingdom, my second collection, I turned to Brian Eno and Yoko Ono as patron saints of risk and ingenuity. I’m blessed with untreated ADHD, discovered…

I grew up on a farm in rural Nebraska, in a family of horror and thriller readers. I spent countless hours as a child exploring the natural world and building…

At a children’s literature writer’s conference many years ago, the author speaking informed the audience that it took her seven years to land an agent and get published. What? There’s…

First Love Last Love by Adele Griffin: Vida Jamison has spent years creating a life built around stability and the things she can count on. But when a winter…

Evie Walters, who lives in North Carolina, is a septuagenarian and a recent widow. Her adult children, abiding by their late father’s wishes to ‘take care‘ of Evie, want to…