Grand Lake Area Literature Festival

I am thrilled to be part of the Grand Lake Area Literature Festival Saturday, April 9th in Celina Ohio. Come, check it out. I’ll be reading from the award-nominated novel, Ladies of the Fire. Other books will be available for purchase.

Something for everyone

Hear from adult authors … children’s authors. Ask questions of a panel of writers on writing and publishing. Free children activities. And there will be a food truck. All that plus a food truck!

Hosted by My Arts Place, you’ll see something for just about everyone.

I look forward to seeing you there!

 

Want to see how it all began?

Can a woman on the run find herself again?

Ladies of the Fire brought us to the late 1960s as we met the newly-widowed Lily-Rose Pembrick reeling as she fled Lincoln, Nebraska, with her children. Only taking the cash from the house safe and what she could get her hands on at the family bank, she left the recently-inherited and successful Pembrick Transportation company behind. Exhausted from driving all night, she stopped in Applegate, Ohio, and decided to start a new life on Norwood Street. There, she met Fiona Kasey, an African-American no-nonsense housekeeper/companion to an elderly white woman, and Sugar Bowersox, a Southern spitfire who has lost herself in motherhood.

Together, they enjoyed Lily-Rose’s backyard fire pit, where dreams were spoken and secrets revealed. As they embraced a kinship they never would have sought, Lily-Rose began thinking her past could finally be laid to rest—until someone ended up dead.