Every year, my brother asks me to repost this…
Days of Awe
Signing pre-orders!
The bindery is shipping out crates of The Women of the Copper Country! If you pre-ordered the book from my local independent bookstore, Mac’s Backs / Books on Coventry, you should have your signed/personalized copies next week. Click here for the list of coming events. More are being added, including one in September in at … Read more…
An excerpt from THE WOMEN OF THE COPPER COUNTRY
Prologue Turn tears to fire! – Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare The dream is always simple. The memory never is. It’s an echo from 1903 when she was almost sixteen. A rare family outing down to the county fair in Houghton, Michigan. Her father probably expected the excursion to cheer her up. There were horse … Read more…
One day only!
On Tuesday, March 19, Kindle readers can get A Thread of Grace for $1.99.
One day at a time
Amid this week’s tumultuous current events, I’ve been working through the galleys of The Women of the Copper Country, which will be published on August 6th this year. Galley proofs are the preliminary versions of publications meant for review by authors, printed up with extra-wide margins so we can pencil in changes and clarifications. Most … Read more…
New Year, new book!
It’s official. Women of the Copper Country will be out on August 6, 2019. Here’s a link to the Simon & Schuster page with a short description and a picture of the cover art. The online catalog has a set of BUY NOW buttons and I will shamelessly urge you to pre-order as soon as … Read more…
Books make good gifts!
If you’d like autographed or personalized copies of my books to give this holiday season, you can order them from Mac’s Backs/Books on Coventry, a local independent bookstore that makes the process easy. You order what you’d like, the staff brings the books to my home for me to sign, and then they’ll mail them … Read more…
The Days of Awe
Every year, at my brother’s request, I repost this essay. Please give it a few minutes of thought. And then say “I love you” to someone who needs to hear it.
A book by any other name
Titles are hard. An author routinely makes about 200,000 individual decisions about what goes into a novel and what comes out, but those last few words are a group project involving the author, the editor, the marketing department, and the art director. A book’s title has to reflect the story, but it also has to … Read more…
Still looking for a thread of grace
Seventy-five years ago, on September 8, 1943, hundreds of Jewish families fled a Nazi round-up in France by climbing the Maritime Alps, hoping to find shelter in the hills of northwestern Italy. Now there is a yearly march to commemorate that exodus — Marche de la Mémoire — when the descendants of those refugees gather … Read more…