The feeling starts not long after crossing the border, south of Dothan. Though the cotton fields are long past harvest in late November, a light dusting of leftover rebel snow is still tangled in the grassy shoulders of the road. From the car window I [Read more…]

Less than 360 days now stand between me and… *gulp* …thirty. Wrapping my lips around that number is difficult. Every time my mind tries to comprehend that I have been walking around on this Earth for nearly three decades, the process is halted by the [Read more…]

Killer Shine simply would not exist without Candi Fisher. As I mentioned last week, the story of Candi’s son Ethan touched me so much I decided to work Fanconi anemia into the Killer Shine plot to help spread the word about this incurable, life threatening [Read more…]

There is more to my new book, Killer Shine, than meets the eye. About two years ago, I was still in the early plot planning stages for the book when I first heard the story of Ethan Fisher. At six years old, Ethan was diagnosed [Read more…]