I have no excuse for being a bad blogger, except that with the release of Whisper and the home invasion by our three kids on spring break, I have fallen hopelessly behind. Now Blakely, the real one for whom Hush was written, is graduating from high school. The realization of having a child preparing to enter college, and everything that goes with it, is mind-boggling. I think how can I be that old? Then I laugh, as I look in the mirror and see...

Hush, A Lakeview Novel – Book Trailer Blakely, Leigh, and Halle, our three daughters, where home this weekend and with Halle’s help Hush, now has a book trailer! It is always amazing what teenagers, especially a rather precocious 13-year old, can do!   Happy...

To the majority of people, boarding school is a foreign concept that can only be understood by watching the ever so insightful Nickelodeon show, Zoe 101. Whenever I tell anyone I go to a boarding school they can’t help but ask, “what on earth did you do that was bad enough to get sent away from home?”. However, much to their disappointment of being deprived of a riveting story of whatever shenanigan I got caught doing, this...

Well it’s here. It being the paperback version of Hush. Holding the book seems surreal. The cover feels soft in my shaking hands. Marriage, birth, publication, seeing something I wrote on a bookstore’s shelf feels that big. I did not think holding an actual copy of my book would feel this good. Over coming my dyslexic insecurities, and proving to my daughters that you can be whatever you want, fills me with a sence of pride that is bigger...