I’ve never done an Instagram read-along, but have always wanted to try one. No better time than now, because I want others to read WINTER...

When I was a kid, there was no Pride Month, much less a day dedicated to gay members of the autistic community. Autism itself was not...

My dad generally liked to spend Father’s Day at home. We’d go to church and come home and my sisters and I would give him our homemade...

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I'm excited to announce that SCATTERED LIGHT , the sequel to WINTER LIGHT , my IPPY Gold Medal in YA book, will be published in less than...

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I learned something new about Memorial Day , a federal holiday to honor fallen US Armed Forces personnel, on the US Veterans Affairs...

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READ STORY I recently heard four members of the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television faculty talk about the skill...

Me and my kids circa 1995 Since I’m still in Costa Rica for Mother’s Day , I thought I’d share what people do in this country on this...

As you know, there’s a lot of change going on in America right now. So when Ashley Holloway in Calgary, Canada, wrote an essay — “Is...

I was doing some research recently and came upon the press release about a play I wrote and that was produced in the summer of 1998 in...

Watch now! A fellow author and friend of mine, John McCaffrey , had a great idea for a YouTube podcast: ask people, “Who’s the most...

I love the earth. I love the mountains where I bike and hike, and the ocean where I surf, and the trees that shade me on my patio and the...

by Cynthia Newberry Martin Every once in a while an author perfectly captures the reality of marriage at a specific, precipitous time in...

I’m currently writing my third book in the Mary Donahue series and it takes place in California, and specifically, Los Angeles, an iconic...

While at AWP2025 recently, a woman told me about The Story Graph and said it’s like Goodreads , the book reader/reviewer site owned by...

During the process of writing BLISS ROAD , a memoir about my undiagnosed autistic dad, I went on a mountain biking trip about two hours...

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