Hello everyone,  I'd like to thank Coffee Time Romance for hosting me today! I will begin by telling you a little bit about myself. I live in New Hampshire with my husband of 32 years. We have 3...

Well, I started this 8 hours ago, posted a lot of excerpts, answered comments from a few people, had lots of great comments from an old friend I had lost touch with. Hopefully there were lurkers who...

A work in progress, based on real people, real lives. The title character is Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife of the great Alexander Hamilton. Though he cheated on her in the first public sex...

It's 1:00 here in the beautiful  corn country of Illinois. I'm going to grab something to eat and then be back. Feel free to post comments! I'll catch up.

I love to give stuff away. Here are a few free stories for anybody who wants to read them. ==================== Short story, TOM: or, An Improbable Tail (c) Ruth Sims FREE READ ebook at...

No, that's not a misspelling. I hope lots of people read this today. Since this is a blog, I'm gonna blog about something I think is important: Independent Bookstores. They're disappearing faster...

This scene takes place the morning after Dylan has heard Geoffrey play at the music hall.  . FYI: Schonberg is the aging violinist who is Geoffrey's mentor. (reminder: Counterpoint is unpublished at...

This is in the second half of the book. Dylan, depressed and unable to compose after having lost Laurence, returns to England to put his life back together. He meets Geoffrey Dohnanyi again, whom he...

(part 2 of 2) Background: The book opens with Dylan at 18 in his last year at Venerable Bede School. He makes a clumsy and immediately rejected attempt at seducing his favorite teacher, Laurence...