Esther and Jacob
Esther watched Jacob approach the party, which was being held under the ancient oak trees on the edge of fields bare from the harvest....
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- Jul 30, 2020
- 3 min
You Should Read Betty Neels
I 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, 2020
- 3 min
The Telling Touch: GIF Edition
I 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, 2020
- 3 min
4 Literary Heroines for International Women's Day
International Women's Day is one of those internet holidays I still need Instagram Hashtags to remind me is happening. But Instagram did...
- Dec 29, 2019
- 3 min
The 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, 2019
- 3 min
10 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, 2019
- 3 min
10 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 30, 2019
- 2 min
A Brief Love Story
My 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, 2019
- 3 min
Elizabeth in the New World
Darcy 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, 2019
- 3 min
HER CAPRICE: Book Club Questions
FIrst, 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, 2019
- 2 min
HER CAPRICE: Fancy GIF Edition
Some 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 19, 2019
- 2 min
Cover 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, 2018
- 7 min
The Princess Switch: So Meta
Tis 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, 2018
- 2 min
Marcus and the Mondays
Fall 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, 2018
- 3 min
Sleep While the Baby Sleeps...and Other Crap Advice
I 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 2, 2018
- 2 min
The Inadequacy of Acknowledgements
There'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, 2018
- 2 min
Pivot 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...