Trust me on this: Fiction is not the same thing as Memoir… And, yet, if you ask the people who know me personally to tell you about my novels, they’ll say things like, “Well, when Marilyn wrote Friday Mornings at Nine, it was about our get-togethers over coffee” (my local friends) or “She incorporated a …
On Friday night, I had the great pleasure of visiting a suburban Chicago book club to discuss TAKE A CHANCE ON ME and THE ONE THAT I WANT, the first two stories in my new Mirabelle Harbor series. It was a blast!! I knew going in that it would be, though, since I’d been invited to join …
This past Sunday night the Academy Awards were on and, as usual, I was glued to the screen for all of it. I didn’t watch more than 30 minutes or so of the Red Carpet interviews beforehand, but I did catch a handful. To me, the stars looked nervous out there. Distracted, jittery, nearly feverish…and …
“There are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.” ~ Charlotte Lucas, Pride & Prejudice Charlotte may have been speaking of courtship in the quote above — Jane Bennet’s and Mr. Bingley’s in particular — but she could almost be talking about writers as well, as there …
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