Those of us who write the stories that sit between the front and back covers of books are artists.  But so are the people who design the front and back covers of books.  Don't you agree? I'm endlessly interested in covers!  A good book cover is a thing of beauty and tricky to achieve because it has to accomplish several things simultaneously.  To me, a book cover should: Communicate the … [Read more...]

I grew up in Tucker, Georgia, near Stone Mountain State Park. I climbed that granite mountain countless times in the first 22 years of my life (and not since!). I used real pies for my team's "pie graphs" in my senior college capstone business class—Chocolate Chess Pie and Buttermilk Pie! We won the simulation and got an A in the course—all due to the incredible smarts of my team mates, … [Read more...]

1. I grew up in New York State in the Hudson Valley about 60 miles north of New York City. As the middle sister of three, I’m blessed to have two built-in, lifelong, best friends.2. I was a huge fan of the Beatles as a teenager and heard them perform in person twice—once in Atlantic City, and once in Shea Stadium in NYC. The stadium held 56,000 screaming Beatles’ fans and afterward it seemed like … [Read more...]