Guest Post on What Grievers Really Need

Thank you to Katy on Journey of Smiley for allowing me to contribute to her collaborative post “What Grievers Really Need: How to Support Others and Yourself through Grief.” I shared my grief story at the beginning of the year in her post called...

Marinovich review

Memoirs hold a special place in my heart after publishing my own in 2022.I was drawn to read Marinovich: Outside the Lines in Football, Art, and Addiction by Todd Marinovich for a variety of reasons, first of which is that I absolutely love football. I was unfamiliar...

Four years ago today

I love how memories show up for us on social media. My Facebook reminded me that four years ago today I was on a getaway with my sister during Camp NaNoRiMo working on my memoir, You are Not Alone: My Experience with Postpartum Depression. So if you have ever wondered...

My book is available in a new bookstore!

Attention independent bookstore shoppers! My book is now available in Libertyville’s newest and cutest shop, About Time Bookstore, in the lovely downtown area. I hope you’ll swing by and say hi to Delanie and her staff, check out the local authors table,...

Shopgirls review

If you’re looking to experience the excess, glamor, and sex-obsessed times of the San Francisco singles scene, told through the eyes of a young woman, then pick up Jessica Anya Blau’s newest novel, Shopgirls. It is definitely rare for me to not have heard of a book...
Where the Rivers Merge review

Where the Rivers Merge review

Is it possible for a novel to change the way you view the world around you? Author Mary Alice Monroe has been writing environmentally-focused fiction set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina for decades. Told with much heart and a touch of humor, many of her novels...