Are your pies safe? Are you sure? Have you checked them lately? The  only way to be completely certain, of course, is put them in…a pie safe. Don't you just love that someone crafted a piece of furniture to keep pies safe? I wish I had one of these lovely pieces of furniture. The one to the right is a reproduction made by an Amish gentleman. Below are pie safes from the 1800s. Be … [Read more...]

I crashed a book club last week, and oh what fun it was! I was supposed to Skype with this group of sweet gals at 7PM but since the hostess didn't live that far from me, I decided to surprise them instead. So I parked down the street and called in at 7PM as planned—as I was walking up the sidewalk to the house. The husband answered the door, and I put my hand over the phone and asked him … [Read more...]

Cover...right? But don't we do just that?  Of course we do. That's why publishers spend so much time and money attempting to design a cover that will grab the reader. That will entice us to pick up the book and take a look. I've got three books coming out this year. Two here in the U.S. and one in Germany. And one of them is a novella, which I really enjoyed writing. To Mend a Dream … [Read more...]