Welcome, dear reader
I’m so glad you’ve found your way here.
Who knew it would take forevermore to write a book? The professionals render it easy.
Kate Morton and Silvia Moreno-Garcia I’m looking at you!
Over the past several years, I’ve devoted myself to developing my craft through attending classes, poring over technique books, seeking out professional critiques, and the list goes on, replete with simply finding time for writing in a life rife with obligations.
The result is a shelf of completed manuscripts, and I know I should begin the process of finding literary representation. But every writer knows when a story arrives and demands to be told. And so, the other manuscripts shall wait while I give my full attention to this one that refuses to let me go.
(And my deepest thanks to those who have returned time and again, following this journey. Your quiet encouragement has meant more than you know.)
But…while I finish telling the story that declines to wait its turn, I have plenty for you right here, such as “Animas Forks” which I shared on social media several years ago and just for fun. It’s a moody narrated short story set in a historic ghost town blending mystery, folklore, and haunting imagery.
Click the play button above. I love Lillian Rachel’s voice on a particular character.
I hope you do too.
If “Animas Forks” captured your imagination, please visit my Passions and Obsessions Blog. I possess a few more atmospheric yarns with curious goings-on, either my own original stories or treasures from literature.
And on my Bookstore Blog I write-up book reviews focusing on works of fiction, contemporary reads as well as the classics.
That said, please don’t forget subscribing at the bottom of this page before leaving. If I find a moment to share a book recommendation other musings—or any news—you will be the first to know.
It may be added I’m on social media. Pinterest remains my favorite place to gather and visualize the atmosphere for my ideas. Over the years, I’ve created quite the collection of thematic boards, each an invitation into another world. I hope you’ll linger there awhile and enjoy.
Who Am I?
I am a writer with a degree in English Literature. A number of years back I traded my Creekside Cottage in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains for an Antique New England Farmhouse in the Woods of New Hampshire.
What Do I Do?
Trotting back and forth between the Northeast and the Southwest I write, weaving the past with the present, mostly working from a studio in my New Mexico garden, the perfect place for crafting stories brimming with romance, mystery, history, a touch of something otherworldly, and a penchant for the Gothic Tale.
What Do I Like?
Places that feel haunted by memory. Weathered landscapes with secrets. Houses that seem alive. Ancestry and folklore. Dark romance woven into gothic mystery. Ancient forests. Moonlit gardens. The past bleeding into the present. Candlelight and firelight. Curious, unexplained events. Village festivals. Nature-laced imagery. The old ways. The emotional pull of yesterday.