Hooray!  It's one of my favorite days of the year.  Cover reveal day. Those of you who like to peek at your Christmas presents early -- fine.  Go ahead and scroll down for a look at the new cover.  Those of you, like me, who obediently wait to unwrap your Christmas presents on Christmas morning -- kudos!  Read on. I'll begin by saying that after I turned in Her One and Only, the final … [Read more...]

Over the years, readers have asked me offer a trip to England, so we could travel together to some of my favorite places and see settings from my books. It is something I thought I’d like to do a distant “someday.” But when a friend in the group travel business asked to meet with me about putting together such a trip, it seemed like “someday” might be sooner than I thought! Now I’m excited to … [Read more...]

My dear Kansas author friend Kim Vogel Sawyer and I were invited to a Book Lover's Tea yesterday in a small town near Wichita. Not only did the event give Kim and me a chance to see each other—always a delight—but it allowed us to meet with a few of our readers, which is a privilege we writers don't take for granted. Oh, my! Did they treat us all! They called it a tea, but it was more like a … [Read more...]