It’s been a long time in coming, but it’s been compiled in a short few months. And these aren’t even all my old newspaper columns from the Preston County News. So there will be another edition down the road. Here’s the cover and the book’s details. You can preorder it Read more…
It’s a two-day trip, but I made it in three. I arrived in Florida on a Thursday almost three weeks ago, having fled West Virginia two days earlier during a snowstorm that followed me south, where it coalesced into ice-covered roads, forcing me to spend the night in Charleston. Which Read more…
Last week I blogged about how to organize your own book tour. The work doesn’t end there, though, so this week’s blog is about making the book tour productive. Because, to have a successful book event, there is much more to do. More that you, as the author, must do. Read more…
As I finish packing my car to head south for Florida, I’m recalling my past book appearances. In part because I need to plan accordingly, and also because other authors have asked me how they can do the same thing. It’s a fact that publishers these days rarely line up Read more…
Denny Ervin was a bad man. Even his family said so. They loved him though, like most people do. After all, blood is blood. He wasn’t always bad, though—and maybe he still isn’t. Who can really say for sure? I can’t recall him being bad in school. Truth be told, Read more…
December 14 has held personal significance for several years, but last year that date became connected with a horrific crime none of us can understand. Even if you’ve fought and won the battle of mental illness, as I did after being hospitalized for depression in 1991, last year’s Sandy Hook Read more…
Note: Please watch this accurate and moving Youtube video a volunteer created about Courtney’s work at the PCAS and her love for the animals there. It will inspire you! If you’re so inclined, check out the other articles here about Courtney and the PCAS. I’m finding it hard to maintain Read more…
It isn’t just the fact the anonymous victim is from West Virginia that makes this case at least as important here as it is in Ohio. It’s that the 16-year-old girl—an honor student and an athlete at a religious school from just across the Ohio River—has had to endure what Read more…
As 2013 begins, I am furious. I am horrified. I am numb. That’s because I am woman. I am also one of too many women who have been or yet will be raped, brutalized or even killed by a man during their lifetime. In 2012, three such poignant cases brought Read more…
Letters, I get letters . . . I received an email last month from Suzanne Thorniley, whose career has been spent in social work and guess what? She wants to let her colleagues know about Sister of Silence! This is what she said: “I have just finished it and want Read more…