A nameless dog plays a big part in the story of Guarding Gaby, helping Eli watch over Gaby while Eli must remain in hiding, for her sake. This dog is based on one we used to own early in our marriage, built like a boxer but had
Read more →Where do you stand on the current fashion for men with facial hair? Micah actually doesn’t have a beard in the story I wrote, but finding cover couples when the woman is a statuesque redhead isn’t easy. So when the cover artist came up with this couple
Read more →My husband has ceased to be surprised by the places I go to do research (WWE match, anyone? Truck stop filled with aquariums?) so the day I called him and asked him if he’d like to go to the Conan the Barbarian Festival with me, he only
Read more →Pea would surely have stopped for this marker if she’d made it this far! It’s located on the caprock of the Llano Estacado (Staked Plains) near Post, Texas, and the notion that the venerable C . W. Post (Post Toasties, anyone?) battled drought with dynamite…well, I cannot imagine
Read more →I’ve driven past this sign along US 183 in Central Texas a hundred times, wondering who put it up and what the story is behind it. Here’s an excerpt from when Pea and her gang of misfits encounter this same sign on their journey: What few clouds
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