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There’s a ton of yummy food in my upcoming YA novel, Rainbow State; and I want to share the recipes so you can enjoy it in real life, not just in reading life! For this first installment of Rainbow Recipes, I chose desert (natch’). Dessert is always a good place to start and after all, […]

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum This book was straight up romantic intrigue, and even though I figured out who the mysterious modern-day, pen-pal / love-interest was from the beginning, the excellent writing kept me invested and interested in finding out how he’d be revealed. From the Back Cover: “Here are three things about […]

Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch If you need a lighthearted escape from the gloom and doom of the news cycle, not to mention the real world – this is your book. It’s all you’d want it to be; sweet, romantic, funny, with just enough “will they or won’t they end up together” tension […]

Alice Hoffman’s : The World That We Knew   It’s spring! Okay, I know things are upside down in the world right now, but as always, the one shining light that will always be available to us is the ability to escape into a good book. And, trust me, this is a GREAT book! Take […]

My word for 2020 is Zest. I didn’t have much fun in 2019. I had to kind of fight through each day, especially at the end of the year. Overall, it seemed like life was handing me one dog-poop sandwich after another. My mom was sick with cancer, and my dad was dying from liver […]

How a trip to a bookstore changed my diet and my life forever Eight years ago, while on summer vacation in Block Island, Rhode Island, after five straight days of rain, with two bored kids in tow, I hit the local bookstore for some much-needed distraction. A book with a bight green cover, and the […]

My Ya Novel Is Set In Hawaii, but not for the reason you think So this is me (on the left). I was six when this photo was taken. It was 1978 and I was very excited to wear this DIY grass skirt and floral lei. My parents took me and my younger sister, Karla […]