Hello everyone,

My new book, All About Evie, is out in ten days!

Yikes. I’m crossing my fingers!

Here’s a REALLY short summary: Premonitions and a DNA test. What could go wrong?

And a little LONGER summary: As a child, Evie Lindsay was unnerved by her premonitions. As an adult, they have become a simple fact of life—sometimes disruptive but also inescapable, much like her quirky, loveable family.  Evie’s mother, Poppy, and her aunts, Camellia and Iris, are well known on San Orcanita island for their free-spirited ways and elaborately decorated hats.

Their floral shop and Evie’s bookstore draw streams of visitors all summer long. This season promises to be extra busy: Evie’s sister, Jules, is getting married on the island.

As Jules plans her unconventional wedding, she arranges to do a DNA test with her mother, sister, and aunts, to see how much accepted lore about their heritage holds true. The results blow apart everything Evie has grown up believing about herself and her family.

Spurred on by the revelations, Evie uncovers the real story of her past. But beyond her feelings of shock and betrayal, there are unexpected opportunities—to come to terms with a gift that has sometimes felt like a curse, to understand the secrets that surrounded her childhood, and to embrace the surprising new life that is waiting for her . . .

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NCPSX2X/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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Hello everyone,

Need a cheap fall book?

The Man She Married is on sale for less than three buckeroos.

Natalie Shelton is married to a man named Zack.
She loves him dearly.
He lied to her about who he was and where he was from.
Now his lies have caught up to them.

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Oh, yeah.

This is how a burned out writer spends her time.

If you can’t write, get out a hedge trimmer and go crazy in your garden.

Six full yard debris bins (thanks to all the neighbors!) and two bags full of garden junk later, and I feel a little more peaceful.

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Hello everyone,

Goodreads is currently hosting a giveaway for my new book “All About Evie.”

36 books.

Click on the link to enter and good luck.

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/298399-all-about-evie

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DNA tests and premonitions. What can go wrong?

Here’s a chapter from my new book, All About Evie, out October 29th…

I can’t always see the future, but now and then, curse it all, I can.

It’s been a plague my whole life.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NCPSX2X/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Powell’s Books: https://www.powells.com/book/all-about-evie-9781496709851

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I love fall.

I love sitting out in my garden and reading, or thinking, or eating chocolate chip cookies, as I take healthy nutrition very seriously.

I hope you have a peaceful week.

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My new book, All About Evie.

Nine dollars and 99 pennies.

Out on October 29th.

For women who like to read about sisters, mothers, and aunts who wear flowery hats and hide terrible secrets.

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Well, I’m counting it down. Less than six weeks before my new book, All About Evie, is out.

Evie owns a book store in the San Juan Islands.

Evie has a little house, right on the ocean, on property her family has owned for generations.

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A 105 year old cookbook.

Six generations of women.

Four countries, four languages

One mystery.

No Place I’d Rather Be is on sale for $2.99 for those who love stories about cookbooks, journeys, families, life. Oh, and Montana.

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I’ve been asked about my writing process many times, so here it is, short and sweet:

1. First, I think up all sorts of bad ideas for my books. My editor and agent are good enough to tell me that they are bad ideas. I think up more ideas. They’re still bad.

2. FINALLY, I have a good-ish idea. My agent and my editor like it. I celebrate by eating chocolate.

3. I start driving in the country. I garden. I daydream. I walk and walk. Why? I need the first line of my book. I do not write a book without knowing that first line. I wait for it to magically pop into my head. Like a spell. Or a curse.

4. Next, I write 2,000 words a day, 10,000 words a week, or I don’t go to bed on Saturday night. I’ve had some real late Saturday nights. But I have to set goals, or that dang book will not get written, friends, no, it won’t. Why? Because I would rather play than work. I would rather hang out with Innocent Husband and The Kids. I would rather call my laughing sisters and my dear brother. Writing books is haaaard. (Whine, sob, sniffle.)

5. When the first draft is done, I goal set again. I edit five single spaced pages a day. All of those pages are a total, complete mess. They’re an embarrassment. The writing is terrible. I told Innocent Husband that if a gargantuan stork ever carries me off and my book is still in draft form, he is to have a nice bonfire with it. When I’ve edited the whole wretched book at five pages a day, I move to ten pages a day, to fifteen a day, etc. Yes, it is brain-numbing.

6. I edit all my books eight or nine times before they’re off to my agent and editor. Right about the sixth draft I start thinking I should have been a carpenter.

7. I edit again with my editor’s comments, then through copy editing and proofreading. It’s about 12 times total. Did I mention the brain-numbing part?

8. When I finally send that edited book off, I get myself a mocha and sit and relax and go back to day dreaming.

Happy reading all.

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