ENTER TO WIN: Now until February 1, 2014 Goodreads Book Giveaway Sailing out of Darkness by Normandie Fischer Giveaway ends February 01, 2014. See

You paint a picture, create a sculpture, write a poem or a book. Folk say they love this or that. A few say they don’t

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaxui7u9X0g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2q3ttZtUyE My publicist, River Laker of Silver Seas PR, shot these on board Sea Venture at Liberty Landing Marina, where we’d docked while

Win Books by: Barbara Claypole White, Anne Barnhill, Barbara Davis, Jessica Dotta, Jessica Topper, Laura Wharton, Lynne Hinkey, Robin Patchen, and Yours Truly! The

As I did before the launch of Becalmed, I’ll be posting tidbits to whet your appetite. The actual party takes place on Tuesday, December 17,

I talk about words skittering off the page over at Southern Writers Magazine today. I hope you’ll visit and let me know how you find

Reading and signing at the senior center, boat-party/book signing on board Sea Venture, and talk to English classes at the high school. Such fun!

Heading from Coinjock across the Albemarle Sound and then down the Alligator River took us out of cell phone and Internet range. How foreign that

After a lovely book event and signing at Studio One, Riverview Galleries in Portsmouth, we headed south. We love the ICW, the quiet of

Here are a few: More to come!