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First the News

Dear Readers, Many of you know that I wrote my first book as a fantasy/memoir of my life in Italy. But did you know that the next books I wrote were middle grade fantasies? It happened like this.

After seeing Dog Days in Italy: How I Became an Expat Dog, three little boys in my life asked if I was going to write a story with them in it. Well, what started as a story became The Book of Mysteries, the first book in a fantasy trilogy for middle grade readers and readers of all...

First the News:

My first cozy mystery, The Glass Ceiling Club, is free on Amazon through the 26th.

Then the Musings

“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.” Emily Dickenson

So much said with so few words. I have always admired Emily Dickenson’s poetry. Succinct, yet elegant. Deep yet pithy. Obviously not exactly my writing style, but at least I’m not overly lengthy, lugubrious, and dense. That said, I didn’t start writing until later in life. But once I retired from my management...

Hello from sunny California, and welcome to my website.

In the midst of everything going on in our country right now, it is often hard to focus on the task, but, that said, I'm working on my next cozy mystery entitled, Death Wore Sunglasses. It should be out this fall, or possibly late summer if I really get my act in gear. Book four has the ladies of The Glass Ceiling Club still on vacation in Italy. They have left behind the trauma of their aborted vacation in Venice and traveled down the...