My new book answers the question: “What if your closet kept track of the stains, tears and problems with all your outfits and whisked them away when you took them off, returning them washed, ironed, pressed, refurbished and generally tended to, grouping them with accessories as well as pantihose (if you wear it) and [...]

In my book, right now titled, Louisa May in Spandex, she returns to our times along with the creatures she wrote about in her Very First Book. It was NOT Little Women, that over-preachy tome her weird father had a substantial hand in, as Louisa was still in her teens.

No. It [...]

Louisa May Alcott returns to our times and discovers Spandex. Just finished 120,000 words on the topic, most of them funny. According to readers so far, it’s a real page turner. Goes off to my agent within the next two weeks. Whew!

The 1997/’98 ice storm permanently closed my bookshop of 20 some years. We had lived above it. Our 50 year old furnace died (duh). It may have been older than that. All our pipes froze and broke and shelves with 35000 books were on top of them. So we had to move ALL [...]

Ibbity has a short piece about our 6 week trip down the Alaska highway, a year or so before it opened officially when I was a child and why I am completely travelled out. I still have a few of these great productions around, thanks to Kemeny Babineau and his publishing house. There are some [...]

My story in this wouldn’t be possible today due to cell phone cameras but I do have characters who come to accept and even love their bodies and a great blackmail scheme in the days before cell phone cameras

Wrote 12 years for this Canadian bi-monthly as an Out Of Print Book Columnist, though actually they let me write anything I wanted. This one’s column was THE MYSTERY MARRIAGE RACKET and ran two pages.

TOO DEAD THE PHALAROPE is one of my stories in here, using the Yukon as a stand-in for Alaska. The other story is THE RAGTIME KID STRIKES OUT. Both are Jenny Melrose stories, my female bookseller character who appears now and then in my short fiction.