The combination of two events served as my inspiration for writing A Weekend with Frances. Many years ago, I attended a three-day...

I'm freaking out today. I just found out that my most recent release, A WEEKEND WITH FRANCES, has earned the Kirkus Star, indicating a...

HOPE’S NEW SEASON, my most recent release, is a sequel to BLESSED TRANSGRESSION, set in the Mennonite community in Goshen, Indiana. The...

While writing Blessed Transgression, I became so emotionally intimate with Victoria Unruh and her family that they became my close...

The title Blessed Transgression seems like an oxymoron. What blessing could ever be associated with wrongdoing? Most of us have the...

Most of my writing projects, whether it be a novel, a nonfiction book, a children’s book, or a short story, come to me in a massive flood....

Blessed Transgression, along with the sequel I am currently writing, are the closest to my heart of all my stories because they are set...

Years ago, I woke up one morning, and in the haze between sleep and the fully awakened state, I believed the dream I’d just had was true....

I do almost all of my writing in an upstairs bedroom of my house that I’ve turned into a writing room. A.K.A. Suzette is my one and only...

For a number of years, I had wanted to write a novel set in my home community of Brown County, Indiana, which is 250 miles away from...