Come see me at the Gaithersburg Book Festival! The first since covid is tomorrow, Saturday, May 21, 2022 from 10 am to 6 pm. at Bohrer Park, 506 S. Frederick Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 (Directions on their website.) I’ll have all my cozy nature fantasy paperbacks for sale. Hope to see you there!
Would you like to win a signed copy of Lost Whisperer of the Seas? You’ll have a chance at my book and many others from over 100 authors at the #HollyJollyParty! If you haven’t joined yet, open your Facebook and find the Coffee, Cupcakes and Contemporaries Facebook group. This is where the fun will be […]
Coming Friday, December 17th, the #HollyJollyParty! With holiday games and chances to win free books and swag! Want to join? It’s at the Coffee, Cupcakes and Contemporaries Facebook group. Click yourself in and put up your feet for a day of fun! I’ll meet you there!
At the beginning of August, a friend invited us to an old-time coastal camp his family was renting near Phippsburg, Maine. We hadn’t been to the state in 15 years and I jumped at the chance, especially after spending so much time with my book characters, Coral, Ty, Salm and Luna, in their seaside adventures! […]
I’ve had my head down on my upcoming book release, but not so much that I missed this: The first swallowtail I’ve seen in our townhouse yard–or habitat as I like to refer to it. I’m dismayed by how few butterflies there are this season, but then the Joe Pye Weed has just begun to […]
If you live in the Washington, D. C. area, come see me at the Gaithersburg Book Festival! It’s on the grounds of city hall in Gaithersburg, Maryland, tomorrow, Saturday, May 18, 2019 from 10 am to 6 pm. (Directions on their website.) I’ll be there with my books–hopefully not looking quite this peculiar as I talk […]
I’ve missed my regular posting because I’m off in vacay-land with the family in Colorado. We’ve had some terrific elk viewing while camping in Rocky Mountain National Park. It’s the elk rut season and they are more gathered into herds and visible down in the valleys than at any other time of year. We also […]
I go to Colorado fairly often. We have a family cabin my dad built in the 1950s, so seeing the Rocky Mountains has been a lifelong thing for me. Not so for others, I know, and the highlight of my trip in July was introducing my 77 year old friend and neighbor to ‘real mountains,’ […]
Where am I this weekend? Well, at home. The daily thunderstorms in the Washington D. C. area have raised the river levels and cancelled my camping plans and much-needed outdoor time at this lovely retreat. Working as a naturalist and environmental educator, most of my day used to be outside. As a writer, not so […]