I love my fellow women, because they… succeed in a world built and run by men raise one another up offer help and support daily naturally...

by Alycia Vreeland Alycia Vreeland’s memoir, BABY DARLIN', is not only a testament to humans’ tenacity, will to survive and ability to...

Buy NOW! If you’d asked me when I was 30 how well I knew myself, I would have said, “Very well! Life taught me otherwise. Fortunately,...

by Carole Bumpus This culinary travel memoir, ADVENTURES BY LAND AND SEA is a fabulous romp through the food-loving, light-filled, old...

Buy NOW! I had a great time attending the American Library Association’s conference in San Diego recently! I got to sign books and talk...

Buy NOW! Now that it’s summer, I was thinking about my childhood summers in the 1970s back in Chicago. What the season meant: hot, humid...

Who’s more fun than a librarian? Thousands of them! As a long-time library lover, librarians have been my best buddies, not only for...

Recently while talking with someone about books, I explained my theory: the type of books we like are based on our brain types. My mind...

My TV Writing Team and I recently got a chance to consult with producer Diane Nabatoff (Narc, Very Bad Things, Gray Matters, among...

Guess what item in this photo should NOT be present? Ah yes, the crutch. I’ve been hobbling around for a week now because I slipped on a...

Buy NOW! A year has passed since BLISS ROAD was published. In that time, I've talked with dozens of readers who've found the book...

LISTEN NOW! What a better way to celebrate the first book birthday of BLISS ROAD by announcing that my interview on the Perspectives on...

Buy NOW! Every great novel begins with the question, "What if...?" For THE FALCON, THE WOLF AND THE HUMMINGBIRD, I asked myself: What if...

AI is here to stay. The question is how to live with it, and all of the ethical, moral and economic decisions that implies. For starters,...

by Nikki Patin Often how we come to experience other people’s lives is not by learning facts about them, but by listening to how they...

Do you have a neurodiverse family that has one or more members with a learning disability, mental illness, developmental issue or...

by Melanie Faith Melanie Faith’s DOES IT LOOK LIKE HER? is a narrative poetry book that reads like a novel. But rather than rely on a lot...

Mary Donahue, the protagonist of my edgy YA novel WINTER LIGHT, was 7 years old in 1970 when Earth Day was established in the US. I was...

Buy NOW! Spring is most definitely the time to read THE FALCON, THE WOLF AND THE HUMMINGBIRD, a Laramie Book Award semi-finalist with a...

Sometimes when people see the description about my memoir, BLISS ROAD, about being the daughter of an undiagnosed autistic dad, they...