A very smart author (you know who you are, Michelle Shores), once told me books never expire. In that spirit, I'm trying hard not to fall prey to all the commercialism of new shiny books with lots of promotional effort behind them, and return to books I still think about, years after reading them. My new novel, In the Shadow of the Smokestack, features a relationship between sisters that some of my beta-readers questioned. How can they fight one moment, then relax together on the couch...

I hit another milestone on my life-as-a-writer journey: a new Maine writer asked me to read an advance copy of his book and write a...

I've decked my halls. I've checked my list, twice. Today I am delving into my holiday recipes. After The Toll Road North was published,...