STARVING ARTISTS
Not long after the release of my debut YA-novel, Honeysuckle Holiday, I was invited to present the work to a group of low-income summer...
FULL SPEED AHEAD!
Imagine telling Nobel & Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison that, at age 40, it was too late to publish The Bluest Eye. Or, telling Bram...
TRUMAN CAPOTE & SCISSORS
"I'm all for the scissors. I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil." Anyone who knows me -- family, friends, teachers,...
BACKYARD BEAUTIES
When I wrote my YA-novel, Honeysuckle Holiday, I knew it would take place in Memphis and in St. Louis -- two areas where I spent part of...
WRITERS & AUTHORS
For as long as I can remember, I've been a writer -- short stories, journal/diary entries, poetry, essays, and most recently, novels for...
HONEYSUCKLE, SWEET HONEYSUCKLE
When I was a young girl growing up in Memphis, a honeysuckle vine grew feverishly outside my bedroom window. I awakened to its sweet,...
BONEYARD, POTTER'S FIELD . . .
So, how cool is the moss hanging from the trees on the grounds of the Circular Congregational Church in Charleston, SC?! When I wrote my...
AUNT DODO & UNCLE HERMAN
Yes, they were real -- so very real. So many readers of Honeysuckle Holiday have asked, "Were Aunt Dodo and Uncle Herman real?" They...
BOO!
The very first thing I think of whenever I hear the expression Boo! is the character Boo Radley from Harper Lee's classic, To Kill a...
ALL ABOARD!
When I was a kid growing up in Memphis, my family would travel by train every summer to visit relatives in St. Louis. Every time I heard...
