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Yes, My Daughter Is in West Africa. Yes, I’m Scared.

People who know me call me adventurous. I have climbed the Andes, hitchhiked around Spain and trekked the Himalaya through

Recently, a friend asked if I had any foolproof strategies for marketing ebooks. My first response was less than quotable:

Like most parents with juniors and seniors in high school, I've spent some of my summer touring colleges. This was my fifth time around, so I thought

Yesterday, I gathered with a group of area writers at the Haverhill Public Library Authors Fair. My table was situated between Kristin Bair O'Keeffe,

I just turned in my synopsis to my editor for the next novel, and truthfully? By the end I felt like I did at Girl Scout camp, when they used to have

As always, I use summer as an excuse to plow through the books collecting on my nightstand (as well as under it). To qualify as a “great summer

The singer Lorde recently made headlines for posting “actual” pictures of herself, acne scars and all, when the media ran digitally-altered pictures

My mother tells better stories than anyone. As a child, my favorite was about the time she babysat for a family in her rural Maine town. The parents

“So, what's your publisher doing to promote your novel?” a friend asked when I sold my second book. The truth was that I had no idea. Something,