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My daughter Siân is staying here in Saskatchewan for a while to escape from the Texas heat and humidity (Ha! She inadvertently brought them with her). She is in the process of sorting our stuff, [...]

Click on the Blogs link below to read the  Throwback Thursday post that appeared on my Facebook page on August 1.

THROWBACK THURSDAY: …all the way back to the late ’80s and early 90s and my first computer, an all-in-one fossil of a machine that had no internet, of course, no email, nothing except [...]

When I am getting ready to begin a new book, the first thing that is likely to come to my mind is either the hero or the heroine (not, alas, both together). If I am in the middle of a series, [...]

A good novel of any genre will almost certainly have a compelling plot. Of greater importance for a romance novel, however, is the development of a relationship between two people, very often [...]

One question I get asked during interviews almost more than any other, apart from “Where do you get your ideas?” (Answer: I really don’t know) and “How do you pronounce [...]

One question I get asked during interviews almost more than any other, apart from “Where do you get your ideas?” (Answer: I really don’t know) and “How do you pronounce [...]

I am always deeply touched when people write to me to tell me how reading my books helped them through a troubling time–the illness or passing of a loved one, for example. It is lovely to [...]

I usually plan a series of books ahead of time–very vaguely, I might add. I decide what the binding idea will be–more often than not it is a family, though the Survivors’ Series [...]

  With six of the Westcott books now out, I have been asked numerous times if the series is complete. Several people have asked why there is no story for Harry. All the questions have led me [...]