• Buckle Up! New Title Revealed

    Look Alive! Misadventures in a School Bus is the title of my next novel, the second in the House of Girls series, which is due to be released this spring from Midwestern Books. But first – Do you remember the snack cake ads from the dinosaur days of the early 1970s? The ad showed a family of four looking at…

  • Six little girls and their mother in front of a flag

    And Then There Were Six

    My parents lost me in a crowd at Loring Park in Minneapolis when I was very young. Luckily for me, there was an event happening with Clarabelle the clown who was on a stage with a microphone. The person who found me handed me to Clarabelle, who hoisted me up for the crowd to see and announced that I was…

  • Cover image of two girls in the shadow of a large woman.

    Happy January 2024

    Happy January. Iowa is hoarding all of our snow, but we do have the freezing temps we’re so famous for in balmy Minnesota. I finally got over pneumonia and was blessed with Covid this week after attending two funerals. 2024 is off to a rocking start. Like that bouncy clown that keeps getting knocked down and springing back up again,…

  • Two girls in silhouette in front of a cracked wall. Stay Out of That Room cover art.

    What Was in That Room?

    The cover art for my light-hearted YA novel captures both the humor and the mystery of Stay Out of That Room. You’ll need to read the 1960s novel to find out, but for now, here is the back cover description. “You may not believe my story, and I don’t care if you do. I know what happened and what we…