Love it or hate it, this book: "I didn't talk much about my missing leg--it wasn't interesting, really--but I expected it to bring me some respect. By and large, my lovers came to my house. My...
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Best Friends
This is my first novel (published in 2001) and I still hear from readers about it. It's the story of two young women who meet in college in the 70's. One is a middle-class woman from the Ohio...
my latest novel, Sometimes Mine
Sometimes Mine is the story of Genie Toledo, a work-obsessed cardiologist, and her long-term affair with Mick Crabbe, a married college basketball coach. Mick gets sick, Genie meets his family, and...
The Office of Desire
The Office of Desire is my second novel (of three). It's about five people in a small medical office in Ohio who delight, bore, and torment each other. It's a sad story. Honestly, I didn't know...
excerpt from Sometimes Mine
"I know that people like talking about gazing into their loved one's eyes, but it was never exactly Mick's pupils that I looked into. The inner canthus is the notch in the eye next to the nose, and...
philosophical question: do you read for comfort, or a challenge?
Hi, readers-- Not along ago I was seated next to another woman fiction writer at a book-signing. Since no one was looking at our books (sigh) we had a lot of time to talk. This woman writes...
hobby month
I like goofing around with my goofy sons I like hanging out with my husband, Marty (yes, we are Marty and Marti) I also like... I have a very lucky life. Every day I think that. If I died...
Best Friends
This is my first novel (published in 2001) and I still hear from readers about it. It's the story of two young women who meet in college in the 70's. One is a middle-class woman from the Ohio...
my latest novel, Sometimes Mine
Sometimes Mine is the story of Genie Toledo, a work-obsessed cardiologist, and her long-term affair with Mick Crabbe, a married college basketball coach. Mick gets sick, Genie meets his family, and...
The Office of Desire
The Office of Desire is my second novel (of three). It's about five people in a small medical office in Ohio who delight, bore, and torment each other. It's a sad story. Honestly, I didn't know...
