Motherhood

Ragdale: The Delights of Having a Room of One’s Own

From the moment I first declared myself a novelist in my twenties, there were doubters. My father, for starters. “You'll never make a living. Why

In her entertaining debut novel, Life After Coffee, Virginia Franken offers us the story of coffee buyer Amy O'Hara, who has devoted so much time to

I had nothing to be blue about this season. Not really. True, only two of our five children could come home because the other three were

This week is a big one for me. I'm celebrating both the launch of Chance Harbor, my fourth novel with Penguin Random House, and my twentieth wedding

Whenever I speak to aspiring writers at libraries or bookstores, I inevitably hear stories like these from women: “I used to write, but