Summer has officially arrived. That means family vacations, travel via planes, trains, and automobiles, visits to the lake house or mountain cottage, and other adventures away from your favorite book corner and stack of shiny paperbacks waiting to be read.…

Lynda McDaniel and I have been writing pals for a long time. No need to actually count the years. Our careers began similarly: writing various forms of non-fiction and then branching out into editing, coaching, and “book doctoring” while simultaneously…

Add these book-related holidays to your May calendar and have some fun with family and friends. National Get Caught Reading Month National Family Reading Month Reading is Fun Week (second week of May) 5th: National Cartoonists’ Day 12th: National Limerick…

National Library Week runs April 6-12. It’s a great time to visit a library and discover what makes these community centers so important. Library Trivia & Facts How to Support Your Local Library Surprising Programs Available at some Libraries Not…

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This has personal significance to me, not only through experience, but in my writing as well. In the 1970s, I wrote an article about rape for a Catholic family magazine, and it focused on…