Today, I join the ranks of the more than 40 million Americans who have been left unemployed due to the COVID-19 crisis. After two and a half years working as the head writer and editor for the marketing division of…
A New Beginning
Free and Discounted Stray Cat Stories E-books for National Adopt A Shelter Pet Day
Stray Cat Stories Children’s Books is offering the e-book version of TRIBBS: THE VERY HANDSOME CAT for FREE this Thursday, April 30, for National Adopt A Shelter Pet Day. I adopted Tribbs from a shelter (through a pet store, as…
“Still Life with PTSD and Geese”
These are strange, almost surreal times. Amidst all the chaos, I was honored to be published by an innovative literary journal called Bending Genres. The April issue came out today, and I can’t wait to read it. My very short…
Publication Date is here for Tribbs: The Very Handsome Cat
It’s National Love Your Pet Day, and for me it’s a double celebration, because it’s also the publication date for Tribbs: The Very Handsome Cat. It took a lot of hard work to bring this heartwarming little book to the…
Coverage for Tribbs in the Register-Star
I was thrilled to see this story about Tribbs: The Very Handsome Cat at HudsonValley360.com, the website for the Register-Star. The Register-Star is the local newspaper in the area of Chatham, New York, where I went to high school in…
Publication Date Set – Tribbs: The Very Handsome Cat will be available on 2/20/2020, National Love Your Pet Day
The Best Short Video of 2019 – Doing My Part to Help Spread the Word
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Writers in the Trenches: Novelist Joan Schweighardt, a “master of historical fiction”
In today’s Writers in the Trenches interview, we tackle a genre we haven’t discussed before in detail – historical fiction. Joan Schweighardt’s new novel, Gifts for the Dead, takes place in the early 20th century in Hoboken, NJ. It’s the…
Writers in the Trenches: Poet Alison Stone Talks Two New Books
In one of her answers to my questions below, poet Alison Stone talks about poems having “two images or stories that play off each other and add up to more than the sum of the parts.” In a funny way, our…