Luna Moth Woman

I feel like I’ve been traveling back it time this past week, binge-watching the 1980s TV show Moonlighting, while I wait for my latest Other Worldly novel, Aliens Watch, to come back from my editor. In some remembered ways, it stood the test of time. In others, it disappointingly did not. What a bombastic eye-opener […]

In my Other Worldly novels, age discrimination is eschewed and most aliens of the extraterrestrial kind are not ageist or sexist, especially with respect to post-middle-aged female protagonist Rowan Layne. It’s a world I would much prefer to live in, being an over-sixty woman, as opposed to this nation’s rampant and ridiculous, highly selective, politically […]

It’s that time of year, for summer vacays and road trips. I myself am not going anywhere—in this horrendous heat? But plenty of folks hook up their campers and fire up their RVs to hit the road, especially here in the West. I remember East Coast summer road trips always including awful traffic, sometimes due […]

I stayed up too late finishing John Grisham’s latest novel, Camino Ghosts, third in a fascinating series that I hope won’t be the last of these crime thrillers that are also pleasing “beach reads,” though I’m not at the beach. I am, nonetheless, in sweltering temperatures, far too humid for the summertime desert clime. Hence, […]

Celebrating the summer solstice today, which frequents in my Other Worldly series, especially structures that align with the angle of the sun on solstices and equinoxes. England’s Stonehenge during summer solstice is featured in Being Alien, and Chaco Canyon in New Mexico is the focus of Alien Sensation, although that scene takes place on the […]

I have a rubber stamp for paper crafting that says, “Whenever I check my weight, I always subtract 5 pounds. I don’t think boobs and brains this fabulous should count against me.” Recently I read an online Writer’s Digest article, “The Importance of Plus-Size Inclusion in Romance Novels,” by author Mae Bennett, which brought this […]

I turned on the news this morning to something unexpected—and delightful. The launch of Boeing’s Starliner, heading for the International Space Station. And I got tears in my eyes seeing it leave Earth, the blues and greens of our planet photographed from a distance, as my protagonist Rowan Layne surely did the first time she […]

Contrary to what many on both sides are unfortunately bemoaning, yesterday was a great day. Because what makes America great is justice, and yesterday, which should now be known as May 34 or the Rule of Law day, justice prevailed. At long last, we had proof that our judiciary system and legal processes would and […]

I used to wake up in a cold sweat during law school after reading the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s Spanish-Inquisition-like opinions. Little did I know the real nightmare would begin with his death, and those who would ignore Constitutional edicts and stack the Supreme Court with even more vile, hateful, vindictive beings intent on using […]

I’m no scientist or astronaut, so writing my Other Worldly series featuring aliens among us on Earth has been a science-based challenge since I realized upon approaching the third novel, Aliens Abound, that my protagonist Rowan Layne would inevitably travel into outer space. Something I hadn’t fathomed when I began writing the first novel, Alienable […]