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The Los Angeles Times published author/teacher/book fence curator Susan Straight’s “1001 Novels To Find America” project on May 29, 2023 and it is incredible. Each

Midwesterners have a reputation for being “nice” and there does seem to be a certain Midwestern sensibility. I’m working with a public relations firm based

The Lockhart Women opens on the night of June 17, 1994, with Brenda Lockhart stressing about her husband’s unexpected insistence on going to a coworker’s

Meredith Gordon started The Writer’s [Inner] Journey to “prove that there is/was/and will never be only one way—one right way—to write. This meant there would

The April 2023 issue of Midwest Book Review’s online “Reviewer’s Bookwatch” features a review of “The Lockhart Women.” Scroll down on the link to read

Last month I slipped anonymously into a Huntington Beach TEA community meeting to hear our city attorney Michael Gates discuss his most recent battle with

The Hasty Book List started as a hashtag on Instagram so Ashley Hasty could keep track of the books she’d read and refer back to

When writer friend Valerie Taylor proposed a Best Book of the Decades project for the “Books Live Forever” Facebook page, I claimed my own decade,

NEXT TIME YOU’RE IN SEATTLE… Stop by the beautiful public library downtown. They not only have copies of The Lockhart Women on their shelves, they

Voyage LA Magazine included an interview with me in their Daily Inspiration feature as part of the Orange County Collection. I got to talk about

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday but every day is a good day to support community. My favorite bookstore and community space is LibroMobile in Santa Ana,