Back on Campus – School Stories
You've probably seen all the photos on Facebook and Instagram – it's graduation season and I can't believe how my…
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The Nine
Very excited that my second novel, The Nine, will be released by She Writes Press in the Spring of 2019.…
How Much of This Is Autobiographical?
This is the question I receive most often when visiting with book clubs and readers. Haven’t you noticed how books…
Gratitude and Reflections for a New Year
Before I look forward to 2018’s resolutions, I need to say thank you to 2017. There hasn’t been a year…
Thinking about Adam, Eve, and the Garden
As I’ve traveled from place to place over the past seven months talking about EDEN, it has been revelatory that…
A Friendship Tour, Thanks to a Book
Promoting a book is almost as hard as writing one. Especially the first time, especially for an indie author without…
An Interview with Narrator, Marnye Young
Jeannie: How did you get into narrating? Marnye: I am an actor who was trying to figure out a way…
The Making of a Book Trailer
I have learned so much in the process of promoting EDEN. Since it was published by an indie press, I…
Summer Reading & Literary Calisthenics
In EDEN, Rachel has a habit of doing literary calisthenics every summer morning. Her book of choice is Moby…
How Squash Powers my Writing
I've been touched by the way my squash community has supported the launch of EDEN: A Novel (and my new…