9th Annual Duarte Festival of Authors!
I really love this event. Very casual, laid-back, beautiful park grounds setting. It was here, a couple of years back, where my author pals and I met the venerable Ray… Read more »
Category: Books
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford My rating: 4 of 5 stars I really liked this book. It read like a historical memoir, rich with… Read more »
California’s Lighthouses: The History and the Mystery
January 12, 2011 – Santa Paula, CA – The earliest of California’s 35+ lighthouses have protected its coastal waters for over 160 years, and are thus a big part of… Read more »
Another Auld Lang Syne
Happy New Year. Have been thinking about what to say, but I’m so late I’m afraid all the good topics have already been written. And it’s already the 4th; folks… Read more »
Feeling Blogged Down!
And that’s because today is the wrap party for my two week long Blog Tour celebrating the release of CAPE SEDUCTION. For fun, my last stop is at my publisher’s… Read more »
August 7th: National Lighthouse Day & Contest!
Surely you know how exciting this is to us lighthouse people! A quick surf through cyberspace will turn up numerous celebrations of National Lighthouse Day. I am celebrating by kicking… Read more »
Printers Row 2010 – Part Two
What a trip. Literally. I flew the Friendly Skies into Chi-Town on Thursday afternoon. O’Hare is a pretty nice airport, with trippy neon lights and synchronized music. BIG airport. Friday… Read more »
Mad Hatters and E-Readers
March Madness! We love March. March is… Small press month Women’s history month National Nutrition Month National Kidney Month American Red Cross Month. See anything interesting yet? Maybe you’re not… Read more »
MURDER… in La-La Land!
For those of you not “in the know” – “La-La Land” is the not-so-affectionate nickname of our City of Angels (originally El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los… Read more »
2000 Personal Review – Part Two
Still going mad. Peeps, you have no idea. More about last year, and this. Taking care. I lost 13 pounds in ’09, and resumed the wearing of contact lenses. How… Read more »