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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…
Sometimes the separation between fiction and autobiography is as thin as gossamer. In 1983, after I met Charley Walters, I rented a house for a…
In 1978, Tillie Olsen published a non-fiction book called Silences, where she shares a survey proving that then—in 1978—one of every 12 published writers were…
I’ve always said that I wanted to write books about real women’s lives. I’ve wanted to include the dirty dishes and the endless day when…
By the time my first novel, Stepping, was published, I had already written most of my second novel. As I wrote Three Women at the…
It was a glorious occasion when my first novel, Stepping, was published by Doubleday in January, 1980! If you want an idea of just how…
YOUR LIFE IS NOT A NOVEL OR MAYBE IT IS! I’ve always wanted to write about the lives of “ordinary” women, and I have done…
When I looked at the photo of our library–republished here because I accidentally deleted it–I saw 2 books by and about a woman writer I…
SEASONS GREETINGS! This how my daughter posed me for a picture: me on top of a pile of books, chocolate and Prosecco nearby. And…
WHAT INSPIRES MY BOOKS? A Nantucket Christmas was inspired by dogs. Here’s Kiska, with her personal shopper and fashion designer Tina. They were at the…
AN ISLAND CHRISTMAS I hope you all had a delicious Thanksgiving! I did, but I’m happy to be back at my computer. I’ve been talking…
A NANTUCKET CHRISTMAS Where do my ideas come from? Christmas and dogs are two of my favorite things, so when I decided to write a…
This is the ereader cover of Spirit Lost, my favorite of all this book’s covers. The artist got that the book was about creating something…
When our 1840’s house lost power the exact moment I typed that the house in my novel lost power, I phoned Charley, whose business was…
In 1984, Charley and I married and bought a historic house on Orange Street on Nantucket. Nantucket is thirty miles from the coast of Massachusetts…