Yunnan books now available!
Now available on Amazon From the Tea Village (novel) — paperback or Kindle Simply Yunnan (cookbook) — paperback or Kindle After several years of work, my novel and its companion cookbook are now...
View ArticleRice Noodle Soup for Mother’s Day
Soup and sandwiches were on the menu for Mother’s Day brunch with my family yesterday, but the soup wasn’t your typical American Sunday fare. We opted to have the Rice Noodle Soup from Simply Yunnan to...
View ArticleGoodreads Giveaways of Yunnan Books
For all my friends who use Goodreads, now you can enter to win a copy of Simply Yunnan (a cookbook of simple recipes from Yunnan province in China) or From the Tea Village (a Middle Grade novel about...
View ArticleWe Have a Publisher
I’ll make this short and sweet — I found a publisher for my book West Texas Interlude: Stories and Photos from the Desert! Below I’m including an excerpt from the update I sent out last week to my...
View ArticleDeadline
This may be the least eloquent and most frantically written blog I’ve ever posted. And I have no shame in that. I just feel the need to explain where I am now and where I’ll be for the next few weeks....
View ArticleTitle Help Needed
I’m emerging from my blogging hibernation with a request for help from those who’ve read my West Texas book or are closely enough associated with it to give me some quality feedback and suggestions....
View ArticleAnnouncing the New West Texas Book Title
Last month (yep, it’s been a month since I blogged) I wrote asking for suggestions for a new title for the West Texas book — you know, the book I’ve been mentioning on the blog for over two years now....
View ArticleA Dressember Reading List
It just wouldn’t be my blog if I didn’t find a way to tie in my recent posts on Dressember to one of my favorite subjects of all time: books. Reading has been a big part of making me who I am today,...
View ArticleA Stake in West Texas now available for Kindle
Good morning, y’all! After 2 1/2 years, the book release is finally here: A Stake in West Texas: Pulling a Chain and Raising a Family Across Big Oil Country is now available for Kindle download...
View ArticleA Stake in West Texas at the Fort Worth Library
All is going well with book signings and readings of A Stake in West Texas in various Texas venues. I never dreamed that this stage of having a book published would arrive in my life, and even though...
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