December 16, 2008. That was the day we realized we had $68 left to our name.  With hindsight, I remember that the months leading up to that date were super strange. My first novel (Hurricane Season) was in circulation that year, and I was just getting back from my opening book tour in late September. […]

I often tell people that if Lou and I were ice cream, I’d be vanilla, and Lou would be Rocky Road.  I’m very simple and plain in my way of doing things, whereas Lou is creative and gravitates toward things that are risky, mixed up and complicated. But the base of Rocky Road includes some […]

It’s not easy to invite people into a mess like this one, because it’s difficult to decide how much to share! There are a million other threads to my story that contributed to our ruin — because it’s never just one or two things that bring you down. So when my world first started to […]