Her name was Branislava Krucz and she came to this country from Poland when she was sixteen. Depending on which family legend you believe, she either traveled here alone, or with her sister. Either way, she ended up working as a housekeeper at the rectory of a Catholic parish. She married a […]

I got an interesting email from a reader the other day. She’d originally emailed a couple weeks ago to tell me how much she enjoyed “Tombs of Endearment,” and since at the end of that book, Pepper (my heroine) talks about a cemetery conference in Chicago, the reader wondered if that’s where the next […]

We’ve been hearing all sorts of agent stories here on the Lil’ Blog this week. Mine isn’t nearly as exciting as CR’s, or as amazing as Don’s. My work with agents has been more in the traditional vein.
When I wrote my first historical romance (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth), I started marketing it […]

Here’s the thing about blogs . . . sometimes it’s darn-near impossible to think of anything to write about!
Which makes me wonder how the folks who do it every day actually do it every day. Writing a blog once a week is plenty hard enough.
With that in mind, I looked back on our blogs […]

If you think of it, shout out a big Happy Birthday to Zorro this coming Sunday. I’ll leave it up to him to tell you how old he is. In a fit of being organized, I’ve already bought his b-day gifts. Want to guess what he’s getting?
And while you’re at it, ask […]

My thanks to Teresa and the other fine folks at the Barnes & Noble store in Pickerington, Ohio for a great author event last Saturday. I was one of eight authors at the signing and we met and talked to and signed books for dozens of readers.
It was a lot of fun, but truth […]

Just to prove to the world how un-political I am, I had no idea what any of you were talking about yesterday with the whole Obama and did he/didn’t he plagiarize a speech. Still don’t. But I do, of course, have opinions about plagiarism. I don’t think I’m being politically incorrect to […]

Lots happening at the Daniels homestead this week, not the least of which is that we have no hot water. NO hot water!
The thermo-whatz-itz went on the tank. On Saturday, of course. Luckily, there is a handy 800 number right on the water tank. When you call it, you get some […]

Tomorrow is the first day of Chinese New Year (traditionally a 14-day festival) and Zorro and I are headed out this evening for a Chinese New Year’s Eve celebration. We’ll be at one of the restaurants in Cleveland’s Chinatown enjoying a dinner and the lion dance. If you’ve never seen the lion dance, […]

It’s been a busy week here on the blog. Lots of good news from Don yesterday, CR’s anniversary, Jeff’s new dog, Judy and the tonsils story . . .
Nothing like that to report here. I have been working putting some meat on the bones of one of the story ideas I brought back […]