My voice was shot. I had cheered on my youngest daughter Sabrina in her last state track event, the 800 meter. I whooped and hollered as she passed six people to get to her 8th place finish. And now it was over. Drew and I walked her down to her […]
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The road was blocked, with police diverting traffic for the Provo, Utah, half-marathon. On my way to the convention center a few blocks away, I walked along the sidewalk, watching the progress of the runners. Some looked like they were in pain, probably had been in pain for the past […]
The race to the temple
DIY publishing an e-book memoir with tons of photos can be done. As an indie author, I could have hired out the interior formatting of my African travel memoir, Elephants on the Roundabout & Other True Stories, but I wasn’t finding a lot of good leads for a photo e-book […]
How to format a photo e-book
My cat’s reaction when I told him I have another book out. The past few months have been kind of a whirlwind for me. Since the start of the year, I have released three books in different genres: The Rogue Raider, the third in a historical trilogy; Heartbreak & Outbreak, […]
My African memoir is finally done!
I saw the house from the highway. My husband, two daughters and I were on our way to St. George to attend a banquet where Sabrina was going to be honored along with four other scholarship recipients. The wind was brisk, and I hurried over a cattle guard to get […]
Taking my daughter’s senior pictures
I am finishing up another round of edits on my travel memoir “Africa,” which is a collection of stories and photos from a trip to Africa I took with my family in December 2017. I have learned a few things along the way: It actually takes longer than a few […]
Finishing up my Africa travel memoir
The Rogue Raider, Islands of the Crown Book 3, is now available. Get it here! For a limited time, get The Last Princess, Book 2, for 99 cents here. Count of Monte Cristo meets Pocahontas in this sweeping saga of adventure, romance and danger in 1760 Spain and Philippines.
I have a new book!
Years ago I had an idea for a historical series, Islands of the Crown, set in 1760s Spain & the Philippines. (Think Count of Monte Cristo meets Pocahontas.) I had envisioned the main characters having their own book and how they would look side by side. I got a proof […]
Count of Monte Cristo meets Pocahontas
“Don’t let the Mormons convert you,” a friend told me before I left the Philippines for Utah in 1987. I shrugged off the advice. I was 15, born and raised Catholic. Our family was devout, usually sitting in the front row of the chapel every Sunday mass. As a teen, […]
Becoming Mormon
Which is also NaNoWriMo Day 1. I wrote 1,614 words towards a new romantic suspense novel in two 30-minute sprints. If I really applied myself and cleared my day’s schedule, I could, technically speaking, write 12k words in an 8-hour day and reach my 50k-word goal in 10 days. But […]
