Happy Birthday to The Carrefour Curse!

Today is release day for my eighth book for teens and middle grade readers, The Carrefour Curse! Inspired by my childhood love of all things gothic, including gothic mysteries by Mary Stewart, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and Virginia Coffman — but especially the...

Launch Day: The Ghosts are Here!

It’s a gloomy, gray day in Pennsylvania — the perfect weather for the launch of Eleanor, Alice, and the Roosevelt Ghosts! Buried family secrets. Vengeful ghosts. Two very different cousins. *** Launching a book in 2020 is very different from my previous...

Ten Years Strong

A little over ten years ago, MG/PB author Nancy Viau and a friend were discussing book signings and the awkwardness of sitting at a table alone while shoppers dash by, avoiding eye contact at all costs. They wished there was a way for authors to combine signing events...

THE ROOSEVELT GHOSTS

At long last, I have news to report that doesn’t involve dogs, vacations, or my quirky daughters. In a slightly different version of this pitch, I can summarize the story this way: In an alternate U.S. history where ghosts are strictly categorized as Friendly,...

Rich in Dog Friends

The beginning of 2019 was a hard time for us. Thank you to everyone who extended their condolences on our loss of Sorcia, our beloved GSD of nine years. We still miss her every day. I look for her when I go to bed late at night, thinking I need to let her out to pee,...

Summer 2017

Apparently, “not returning to a regular blogging schedule” means “not blogging until people start asking if I’m okay.” Since two people have asked this week why I haven’t updated my blog, I thought I’d make an entry and let...