Dear Friends:

Would you believe I lost my key to get into my own site?

Sigh. Sometimes technology is NOT my friend.

But a lot has been happening since I last wrote this greeting.
Including the exciting fact that my April Superromance
RETURN TO THE BLACK HILLS was nominated by
Romantic Times Reviews as “Best Superromance of 2011.”
This came as such a wonderful surprise.

Writing? Yes. Publishing? Yes.

In fact, the biography I co-authored with my friend
Jack Hooper is now available as an e-book and
will hopefully be available soon as a trade paperback
through Createspace. This book has been a fabulous
learning experience and it was fun to return to my
non-fiction roots for a short while. Once again, I turned
to my friend, the super creative Kim Van Meter
to do the cover for us.

Jack’s story is a rich, interesting look at a self-made man
who found a way to combine his two passions–economics
and agriculture–into his life’s work…and have some
pretty amazing experiences along the way.

When frozen mud warms under the noonday sun in Death Valley, tires sink to a new low.

I’m also excited to be involved in a wonderful new
endeavor in my small foothill community–the formation
of a new charter school to take the place of the elementary
school that was closed last May due to budget difficulties.
Sierra Foothill Charter School is scheduled to open this coming August, but the fundraising work continues!

Happy reading!

Deb