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  • Echoes, interviews, and new books to watch for

    It has been a crazy ride, but Echoes has been released to the world. What a journey! When I was in school, decades ago, I wanted to write historical fiction. I was sure that B.A. in U.S. History was going to be put to use in a story centered around the American Revolution. Nope. Didn’t happen. I…

  • Me as a writer: 7 facts

    I was challenged by Lynne Provost to write 7 facts about me as a writer. I’ve been interviewed about my historical fiction elsewhere, so I’m going back to my writing roots here: 1. I didn’t pen many stories when I was young – the ones I wrote down were required for school. But my imagination was my playground.…

  • Alex Winger – birth of a Star Wars Expanded Universe character

    With the resurrection of “Shades of Gray: from the Adventures of Alex Winger“, I thought it would be fun to take a look at Alex’s history. A LONG TIME AGO…I loved Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, but the universe created by George Lucas flew off my radar after Return of the Jedi (RoTJ)…

  • My Star Wars short story

    “Shades of Gray” comes back to life! I was thrilled to hear that Del Rey and Lucasfilm, Ltd. agreed to set up an online library to re-publish short stories that had been web exclusives in the old members’ section (Hyperspace) of starwars.com. I thought my 2009 story would never see the light of day again…