Chance Harbor

I Wrote for 17 Minutes Yesterday!

Last weekend, I participated on two different author panels during the 2016 Newburyport Literary Festival, an event packed with

One of the worst mistakes I ever made as a green novelist was to ignore the advice of editors and friends who told me certain manuscripts

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

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

Like many writers, I was first introduced to Amy Sue Nathan through her wonderful site, Women's Fiction Writers, which has become one of those

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,

For many writers, word count is everything. Me, not so much. At the start of every manuscript, I might write 2,000 words one day, only to decide that

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