Essays and Random Thoughts

Confessions of a Ghost Writer: Pay No Attention To That Woman Behind the Curtain

Recently, I appeared on a radio show to promote a literary event. We were talking about my latest novel, but inevitably the

I often wake up in the middle of the night. Our children are scattered around the world now, so my typical insomnia starts when I wake and

Laura Drake is in an enviable position as a writer, having sold her “Sweet on a Cowboy” series to Grand Central, winning a 2014 Romance Writers of

Recently, I was skimming the front pages of the New York Times book review when I caught this item: Jonathan Safran Foer's new novel,

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

I write emotional family mysteries, the sort of fiction where the characters suffer through freakin' horrible crises:

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

A few years after first discovering Prince Edward Island as a single mom with two young children, I invited my second husband,

Before buying a house on Prince Edward Island, my husband and I rented places all over the island. Whether we were staying in