Category: Blog Posts

Publication Date: September 1, 2021 A secret fear. An antique pocket watch with a tragic past. When 8th grader Caleb Meyer stumbles upon the old watch at an abandoned railroad museum, he's sure that if...

Christmas in my home means a lot of things. It means dusting off the decorations I put away in January, taking a moment to admire each one and perhaps reminisce about the...

Today we welcome children's book author, Lisa Jacovsky! What drives your story forward in your books the most, the characters or the plot, or do you feel they are intertwined? I feel like Emma...

Sin City Wolf: Book 2 Publication Date: September 21, 2021 To be chosen is everything. Billionaires. Scholars. Relic hunters. Alessandro and Maximus Luceres are a united force and dangerous wolves to cross. Members of the powerful...

There’s an ongoing debate in the historical novelist community about what liberties authors can take with history, where it’s all right to invent things for the sake of the story, and what...

Most kids play pretend. It’s the nature of childhood. We imagine we’re in different roles, with different names, different personas. Or we grab an ordinary toy and make it something extraordinary in...

One of the aspects of being an author who writes on spec is that it plays to one of my weaknesses, perhaps to my greatest weakness—self-discipline. I can set writing goals, and...

The Limits of Limelight, the title of my fourteenth novel, illuminates the inherent conflict its protagonist, the story’s real-life inspiration, must contend with. In July of 1931, Ginger Rogers and her mother Lela...

New Jersey has a reputation for many things. They filmed The Sopranos here. We’re home to Princeton University. The taxes are high, but the beaches are decent. What is less well known...

Publication Date: September 26, 2021 The art director of Kids Press, Amy Shepherd has been assigned to reinvent the story of Goldilocks, and she finds her own life reflecting a similar tale. Will...

In A Calculated Whisk, my tenth Vintage Kitchen Mystery, I have my heroine looking over a collection of vintage kitchen whisks, preparing to mount an exhibit. Jaymie Leighton Müller not only...

In Their Eyes: Book 2  Publication Date: September 13, 2021 Entrepreneur Smith MacLean is obsessed with Alessandra Soriano, a woman he met briefly who disappeared six months ago. After a shocking reunion at Club...