A Snippet

It’s the last stop on the A Clash of Innocents launch month blog tour, and it somehow feels right ending up at the site of Debi Alper.  To me, she has come to symbolize what blogging means – friendship, humour, comraderie, sensibility and silliness, and...

Watching Tim Bring Up Charlie

Well, I’m nearing the one-month mark since the launch of A Clash of Innocents and that means one more week of my blog tour.  There will be other interviews and blog stops coming up, but today and Thursday will mark the end of what I guess I’m thinking of...

Book Clubs

One of the great pleasures of promoting a book, not to mention having a book to promote in the first place, is visiting book clubs.  To me, the incredible profusion of book clubs of all types, sizes, interests and genders is a key sign that our civilization is still...

Off to Deb's Shed

What is it about sheds that seems so romantic, so blissful and otherworldly (Alex Johnson and Sarah Salway — are you out there and nodding your heads?)? My blogging friend, Debs, has invited me over to her shed in the Channel Islands for a good old fashioned...

DJ Kirkby: "Without Alice" and then over to Lane….

I have known DJ Kirkby for several years now, first as  a blogging buddy and now as a real life friend. She is a woman of great generosity and heart, both of which are evident in her new novel, Without Alice, published by Punked Books:      Have you ever had a secret?...