To Follow Her Heart: Mowsley, U.K. to Southold, L.I.

A book tour to remember… With the release of To Follow Her Heart, book #3 in The Southold Chronicles series, I was thrilled to travel to some of my favorite places (Hood River, Mowsley, Long Island!) to promote the book! On September 2nd, I joined my friend and fellow author, Jane Kirkpatrick, where we both signed our latest (Jane’s is The …

Amazon Reviews: What Others Are Saying

Read what others are saying in Amazon reviews about A Place In His Heart, the book that began The Southold Chronicles, now on sale for 99 cents (in ebooks)! As we prepare to celebrate the July release of book #3, To Follow Her Heart, my publisher, Revell, has a special price for a limited time for both books 1&2 in …

The Southold Chronicles: A Cover Reveal

The dream to write a novel about Mary Horton began in Southold, Long Island, 1999. I flew to the east coast with my mother, Helen Horton Worley, to visit the lighthouse named after her eighth great-grandfather, Barnabas. He was a widower when he came from England in the 1600’s, via Massachusetts, to Southold with his two little boys and a …

Happy Birthday, James Madison!

Happy Birthday, James Madison! Or is it belated Happy Birthday? James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, was born under the Julian Calendar – the Old Style – just before Great Britain’s calendar reform. The Julian Calendar was ordered by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. and followed a twelve month system based on the solar year. It consisted …

Happy Bday Moby-Dick ~ “Call Me Ishmael”

I could not help but notice that today is the anniversary of the publication of one of my favorite novels, Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville in 1851. Though “Call me Ishmael” became one of the most famous opening lines in literary history, the novel was not a commercial success and it was only after Melville’s death that his literary genius in …