Make the most of National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo)! Story Starters, A Workbook for Writers will banish writer’s block, spark your imagination, and provide endless opportunities to make fiction out of thin air. Whether you want to punch up your dialogue, explore dramatic tension, mine your life for material, or write a compelling opening chapter,  Read more »

HERE IS the truth, this is what I know: we were walking on Ocean Beach, hand in hand. It was a summer morning, cold, July in San Francisco. The fog lay white and dense over the sand and ocean–an enveloping mist so thick I could see only a few feet in front of me. Emma  Read more »

“A mesmerizing novel of loss and grief, hope and redemption, and the endurance of love.” Library Journal, starred review Purchase from Indiebound, Barnes and Noble, others ABOUT THE BOOK: Six-year-old Emma vanished into the thick San Francisco mist. Or into the heaving Pacific. Or somewhere just beyond: to a parking lot, a stranger’s van, or  Read more »

At 6:21 a.m., the telephone rings. My mother, two time zones away in Mobile, Alabama, says, “Do you know?” “Know what?” “You better turn on the TV.” The pictures do not register. Something is burning, something familiar. But it isn’t possible; surely the burning building isn’t what I think it is. Then the voice-over confirms,  Read more »

In Print: Anneli Rufus for the East Bay Express Leslie Katz for the San Francisco Examiner. Read the interview here. Jeff VanderMeer for Omnivoracious, the Amazon editors’ blog. Profile by Meredith Maran in Family Circle. Interviewed by Samantha Schoech for Marin Magazine. April 2007 issue. Profile by Jennifer Haddock in Garden & Gun, issue 2,  Read more »