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For Mature Audiences Only
As we head into the holiday season, I think that some of the more. . .mature. . . of my readers might enjoy taking a…
It’s Never Too Late in Fiction or Life to Revise
A writer, Fanny Anderson, says those words on page 252 of my novel Morning. At the beginning of the book, a free-lance editor, Sara…
The Island House
What inspires my writing? Sometimes, my memory–and my diary, which I kept from the time I was 17. I dated this slightly older, very handsome,…
MY OTHER HOME
Several times a year, I leave the island and drive out to the middle of Massachusetts, near Amherst, where my daughter and her family…
Summer Love
In the summer of 1995, Ariel, Wyatt, Sheila and Nick come to Nantucket to work for the summer. They’ve just graduated from college and the…
AND THEN I LOST CONTROL. . .
“Could she just accept her child? Or should she, must she, remain on guard, forever nudging and nagging her daughter toward safety?” page 336, Family…