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How One Coach Got Me Off the Couch—and Inspired My Writing

I'm the mother of three champion long distance runners. I honestly don't know how that happened, since I was never a runner. But I showed up at almost

When Writing, Sometimes All You Can Do Is Jump

The most important thing every writer has to do is take a leap of faith. What does that mean, exactly? That, no matter how stuck you are at the

Who’s Telling the Story? A Crash Course on Points of View

I've been writing fiction for many years now. Each book poses new stumbling blocks. Inevitably, though, the question that always plagues me

What Happened When My Characters Hijacked My Novel

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

The 5 Worst Things a Writer Can Say

This past week, I launched my fifth novel, Chance Harbor, provoking a friend to exclaim, “Wow, you're popping out books like Tic Tacs,

Discovering Prince Edward Island and a Sister-Writer

After making my first foray to Prince Edward Island with my friend Emily and our four children over twenty years ago, I returned to