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Happy December, everyone! Today, I’ve got a little treat for subscribers—a Christmas story set in the world and time of the Signal Bend Heritage series! It’s called “A Very Mindy Christmas,” and subscribers can access it in Subscriber-Exclusives right now! Not a subscriber? You can fix that right here! The inspiration for this story happened
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I generally love the holidays and dive head-first into all the happy chores of making the season magical—decorating, cooking and baking, gift shopping and wrapping, the whole sparkly ball of fun. When our sons were kids, I worked hard—and eagerly—to make the holiday as special as I could, even in my single-mom days, when the
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Thoughts on the (Dreaded) Miscommunication Trope Several weeks ago, I got a message from a reader challenging me (nicely) about what she argued was a misalignment between my stated aversion to the miscommunication trope and the occurrence of miscommunication in several of my stories. In responding to that reader’s message, I ended up thinking pretty
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In virtually my entire life, I have never enjoyed sports in any way. As a participant? HAHAHAHAHA. Though I work out regularly and have for years, I am possibly the least athletic person on the planet. I have virtually no spatial awareness. I’m clumsy. I’m slow. I’d rather be in a comfy chair beside the
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Hey there! Today is the day! Freak, Book 3 of the Signal Bend Heritage series is NOW AVAILABLE. You can find it at Amazon and most other vendors. Freak features Abigail Freeman as the FMC. Abigail is a new character to this series, introduced in Book 1 (Virago) and featured in a significant subplot of
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This coming Monday is the 105th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which finally enfranchised women of the United States with the power of the vote. Progress in this country has always traveled a stuttering, circuitous path, making promises and reneging, picking and choosing who gets rights and when they get them or
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Every summer, the readers in the Susan’s FANetties FB group have a Q&A in which they submit questions to me, and I, usually quite reserved throughout the year, hold forth at length in my answers. This year, the 11th, had a particularly great collection of questions that really made me think. One of them got


