Thanks to my wonderful agent, Julie Gwinn, I'm pleased to announce that I've signed a contract with Vinspire Publishing for a trilogy of Gilded Age historical romances! Did you love Downton Abbey? … [Read more...]

Ah, Buffalo, City of Light and beer! Flew into Buffalo last week to visit my sisters in our old hometown of Tonawanda. How wonderful to stand among the milling crowd in the airport and hear that … [Read more...]

Only after I grew up and moved away from my hometown of Tonawanda, NY, did I realize and appreciate the Polish and Italian ethnicity of our community. Now when I get a chance to return, I love to … [Read more...]

  The Erie Canal Brides Collection I've been privileged to write three novellas for Barbour Publishing, and of these three my favorite is The Battlefield Bride, from The Courageous Brides … [Read more...]

I've just had new covers designed for my first two historical novels. I'be been involved this publishing thing since I wrote my first novel back in 2004. When we were still doing "snail mail" … [Read more...]

  I didn't know that surviving the blizzard of '77 loomed ahead of me when I hurried out of the house running late for work on Friday, January 29, 1977. I worked as a nurse for a professional … [Read more...]

Out this week, a new anthology of historical novellas in The Runaway Brides Collection. My novella, The Irish Bride, relates the story of Deanie Devane, who escapes the Irish potato famine after her … [Read more...]

Fright Night at 159 Findlay Avenue and floating killer brains? Being the oldest in a big Catholic family had its perks. New clothes instead of the hand-me-downs my younger sisters received. It had … [Read more...]