Sisterhood

When Rainbow closed the shop for the day, she solemnly put on her cape and trudged to the car. Driving home, she reflected on the past few months and had to admit to herself, finally, that business had sloughed off considerably. Her second shop in Auburn was doing a little better; the location there seemed to draw in tourists on their way north to Lake Tahoe and Reno. They seemed to find the little foothill community charming and the arts and crafts inventory had some draw for those types...Read Full Story

,A body disguised as a scarecrow is found with a bullet wound in a remote cornfield, and the team is forced to work against the clock to avoid a storm and potential complications that would affect the evidence. Booth and Brennan interrogate the victim’s three wives, who are also sisters, and learn that jealousy between the sisters and their desire for their husband’s attention had caused a major rift in the family. Booth and Brennan also question one relative who disapproved of the victim’s...Read Full Story

I'm not sure who started the "Sunday Salon." I didn't see any links to an original creator at the sites where I noticed this colorful logo. I visited Jenny's Sunday Salon at TAKE ME AWAY, and popped in to peek at Alyce's "salon" AT HOME WITH BOOKS. Then I took a gander on over to BILBIOPHILE BY THE SEA. From what I've gathered so far, it looks like a place to reflect and muse upon the week past and ponder the week ahead—in terms of books. A little over a week ago, I "organized" my TBR stack...Read Full Story

I found this image on the Internet, of course. I've seen it on various sites, including blogs. A few months ago, I only had one blog and one website. I also dabbled on the Amazon Profile pages and the Goodreads site, accumulating "friends," reviewing books, and joining groups. Oh, and I had a My Space page, but I didn't visit it very often. Then suddenly, like a cloud burst on a summer day, I was bombarded with invitations to these new "social networks." It began with one—someone at Goodreads...Read Full Story

My latest novel, entitled "Miles to Go", was actually the first one I wrote. I began it in the eighties, without a title; then in 2000, I picked it up, started all over again, with different character names, but with the same concept: the primary character is a woman who lived through the sixties and seventies, suffered loss and tragedy over the years, but who triumphed because of her sisterhood connections. The title came from a Robert Frost poem... "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But...Read Full Story