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Juliana has been nominated for Best Book by Universal Breakthrough. Now, I want to be the WINNER. There are some nice writerly prizes like FREE PR, appearance on the cover of their beautiful magazine and a money prize. The WINNER IS THE ONE WHO GETS THE MOST LIKES. Will You Help Me Win a Prize […]

Sunny Bee Productions created this wonderful video of me discussing what inspired me to write the Juliana series, and more! You can see the video here, and if it’s not appearing, then you can go straight to Vimeo to watch the original. Do You Know Dorothy – Book Spotlight from Sunny Bee Productions on Vimeo. […]

The Incomparable Hildegarde Most people today don’t recognize the name The Incomparable Hildegarde, but if you’d lived in the thirties, forties, and fifties you would know that she was the highest-paid supper club singer in the world. The Incomparable Hildegarde Most people today don’t recognize the name The Incomparable Hildegarde, but if you’d lived in […]

Have you ever taken a walk to a restaurant you enjoyed a few months back, but haven’t been to in awhile. You think, it’s such a beautiful day. I’m really in the mood for……… You fill in the blank. You set out, you’re a New Yorker, you don’t mind a bit of a walk–except. When […]

This whole week I’ve been researching the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) and getting angrier and angrier. Actually, to my surprise, I found their lives were not too bad during World War 2 when they first began. Of course, I’m talking here about the lives of secret lesbians in the WACs. Certainly, the armed services didn’t […]

A long time ago I remember reading in  John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley (a wonderful memoir) that he had once written a play.  He said it was awful. Long and sprawling. He shelved it, never to write a play again.  At the time, I wondered if the reverse were true.  Would a playwright be a […]

I put the briefcase on his desk. “Open it.”             He pulled open the top of the briefcase, looked inside, “Oh, my god!” and slammed the cover shut.  “Where did you get this?”             “A gentleman who I had never met before paid me a little visit last night. He was delivering this ‘gift’ for […]

  A few nights ago I turned off the lights, exhausted, and crawled into bed. I was lolling slowly toward sleep when I heard, “Bzz bzz.” I sat up.  “Where is it?”  I hate that sound.  I listened and looked. I didn’t hear anything. I didn’t see anything.  But now I was awake. I didn’t […]

Let me set the scene: A slender blond enters the powder room of an exclusive club.  She waits.  What is she waiting for?  An attractive woman to enter.  She has a mission.  She must seduce almost every woman she meets because she’s convinced that all women would, of course, choose sex with a skilled woman […]

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up is an absolute gas! I can’t find any other way to say it, but to use that old fifties slang word, for a very new book. I never knew cleaning up your crap could be this much fun. I’m not sure why I picked it up to read? I […]