A snippet from Rumer and the Red Cardinal, my young adult WIP (Work in Progress) Rumer lost track of time. The orphanage girls had a practiced makeup routine that she used to turn herself into a ghostly waif in fifteen minutes flat. Paloma was far more meticulous. Rumer would have been bored silly, but Paloma…
I’m not one for anniversaries—I struggle with feelings of loss—but this event five years ago felt like a lifeline. Something I never believed would come to me actually did, and it touched me profoundly. Five years ago today, my first novel, a late-middle grade mystery called Secrets of the Hotel Maisonneuve, became available for…
As a kid, did you risk life & limb because a book was so good that you couldn’t put it down while walking home from school? Imagine how it feels when you’re an adult & a kid is doing that while reading YOUR book. 💕