September 6, 2026

Six months since I opened this page, and I owe you an update — though I'd rather show than tell.

I finished the first draft of Whispering Hope at the end of August.

I'm still sitting with that sentence. After all the years of carrying this story around — Robbie and Hope and Amanda and Garry and a crisis written in the sky — it's on the page now. All of it. Roughly 120,000 words that took me through some of the most creatively intense months of my life, including two where I could barely write at all due to family obligations and still somehow came back and kept going.

It's not finished. A first draft never is. I'm heading out on a cruise this week with a proof copy in my bag, and I intend to spend a good portion of that trip reading through every page with a pen in hand, marking what needs to change, what needs to deepen, what needs to let go. The revision work begins in earnest when I return.

In the meantime, other things are moving. New covers for One Chance, One Moment and For the Love of Mandy are in progress — covers that match the stories these books have always been. The Spanish edition of One Chance, One Moment is finally close to publication. And this website will continue to evolve as I get closer to a release date.

I said in March that the desk was open again. It hasn't closed since.

More soon.

March 16, 2026

There's a particular feeling that comes with sitting back down at a desk you haven't visited in a while. Not quite guilt, not quite relief — something in between. A quiet recognition that this is where I've always felt I should be.

It's been a few years. After publishing For the Love of Mandy in 2017, life did what life does — it arrived all at once and didn't apologize for it. I was running a holistic arts and healing center out of a studio above our garage on forty acres in
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