Feb 19, 20214 minEsther and JacobEsther watched Jacob approach the party, which was being held under the ancient oak trees on the edge of fields bare from the harvest....
Jul 30, 20203 minYou Should Read Betty NeelsI am a terrible door-to-door salesman. Granted, my evidence for this rests on an abysmal record of moving beef jerky sticks for the 4th...
Jun 12, 20203 minThe Telling Touch: GIF EditionI like this tradition we have. This lovingly-curated GIF edition of THE TELLING TOUCH is full of spoilers and skates over many plot...
Mar 8, 20203 min4 Literary Heroines for International Women's DayInternational Women's Day is one of those internet holidays I still need Instagram Hashtags to remind me is happening. But Instagram did...
Dec 30, 20193 minThe Reckoning (2019)As my homeboy Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote, "The year is dying in the night. Ring out wild bells and let him die." I am a huge fan of...
May 4, 20193 min10 Terrible Reasons to Read 'North and South'You know the drill. There are great reasons to read Elizabeth Gaskell's 'North and South'. These spoiler-y reasons are not those reasons....
Apr 15, 20193 min10 Terrible Reasons to Read 'Anna Karenina'There are excellent reasons to read Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece, Anna Karenina. (I weep with reasons. They are many and varied and I feel...
Mar 31, 20192 minA Brief Love StoryMy name is Keira Dominguez and I hate travel. (Hi, Keira.) I don’t know why this feels like I’m admitting to kicking puppies or not being...
Mar 3, 20193 minElizabeth in the New WorldDarcy had done all this for the love of a woman he would never possess. Poor Darcy. He was such a fool. Author Maggie Mooha and I were...
Jan 31, 20193 minHER CAPRICE: Book Club QuestionsFIrst, thank you for choosing HER CAPRICE for your book club! It gives me a nice, happy glow to think that this novel is being discussed...
Jan 31, 20192 minHER CAPRICE: Fancy GIF EditionSome writers yearn for hand-tooled, leather-bound editions of their books. And, while I do think that a gilt-edged page is super spiffy,...
Jan 20, 20192 minCover Art!I had a call from my publisher this week, giving me a head's up on progress. Final edits are being nailed down this week and I should be...
Nov 26, 20187 minThe Princess Switch: So MetaTis the season for impossibly sweet love stories wherein an uptight city girl returns to her hometown in time for Christmas to save the...
Sep 24, 20182 minMarcus and the MondaysFall has come. No matter what the calendar says, I can tell that Fall has arrived when I wake up and my first thought is about how we...
Sep 21, 20183 minSleep While the Baby Sleeps...and Other Crap AdviceI was 23 when I had my first Pledge of Conjugal Affection and weathered the usual storm of parenting advice. Don't put Baby to sleep on...
Sep 3, 20182 minThe Inadequacy of AcknowledgementsThere's that part of the Oscar telecast where a winner fishes a crumpled piece of paper from a plunging bodice and proceeds to read from...
Aug 28, 20182 minPivot Sharknado It was the first day of Kindergarten yesterday for my Littlest Pledge and I leave tomorrow to take the Biggest Pledge off to his first...