The month of May marks a new beginning for Just Read it and for me. Just Read it is the 10 minute YouTube video program Susan Stoner and I have co-hosted over the last 4 years. During each show, a Portland, Oregon author joined us to discuss a book from the New York Times B
I opened an email the other day from my publisher. Their note said they’d submitted my novel, Heart Land, for some book award. If they’d had asked me, I’d have told them not to bother. I don’t have much faith in awards. Wherever people gather, politics is likely to fol