I'll confess to a love affair with pages over pixels. There's something magical about settling down in a quiet nook where the only devices I'm left to are my own. While other readers remove print copies from their homes, I celebrate the books in mine, as the image above illustrates.
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Cover Reveal for Cheyenne Sunrise
New Literary Adventures
For many of us, wanderlust is a force to be reckoned with. It's haunted me since childhood, when I sent off to the chambers of commerce and tourist bureaus for travel brochures of places I wanted to visit. Just gazing at those pictures took me into them in my imagination. Perhaps this is where I … Continue Reading ››
No Frigate Like a Book
There is no frigate like a bookTo take us lands awayNor any coursers like a pageOf prancing poetry –This traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of toll –How frugal is the chariotThat bears the human soul.Emily Dickinson
Lost in the Woods
I’d read stories about people who became lost in the woods. The gas left in our tank, our mental resources, and a prayer were the only things keeping us from winding up among them.
The Beauty of Reading
No two persons ever read the same book.
–Edmund Wilson I love the way readers make novels their own. I notice it most in reviews of my books. Invariably, a reviewer will decide a novel is about something I never intended. It is, for that person.Epic Fantasy
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The Road Less Traveled
There's something about a lonely road that I simply can't resist. Maybe it's the influence of Robert Frost, whose poem entitled "The Road Not Taken" carried me into vicarious adventures. I must have been twelve when I first read it, and it's had an impact on me ever since.
You'll find "The Road Not Taken" by … Continue Reading ››
Vinegar Lemonade Oregon Trail Recipe
Emigrants traveling the Oregon Trail needed to consume Vitamin C in order to avoid scurvy. This could be a challenge, since fresh produce was often not available. Apple cider vinegar, which is loaded with Vitamin C, usually was. Vinegar keeps well, part of its charm for travelers on the Oregon Trail.
This concoction intrigued me enough … Continue Reading ››
Books as Portable Magic
"Books are a uniquely portable magic." Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Books have only become more portable with the advent of the digital age, with one slender device holding a library. I'll confess to being old-fashioned enough to resent that. I still think of books in terms of paper. I don't think … Continue Reading ››