I vividly remember reading my first Harlequin Romance novel. It was at summer camp in 1972. The title and the author escape me now, but it was a Christmas story, set in a big old house, where the hero was stranded by a snow storm with the heroine’s family. At twelve years […]

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I had a great time at a bar last weekend. Surprisingly, it was with the presenters from the Yukon Young Authors Conference. I have to admit, since I was the only popular fiction author at the event, and since the other presenters were poets, playwrights and literary authors, I expected the conversation […]

The news from the north this week is that it’s melting. April is shaping up–as it usually does–to be a slushy, ugly month. Today I’m trapped in my little log house by a quarter mile obstacle course that was once a driveway. It’s speckled with puddles, snow patches and mud bogs that’ll […]

This is the weekend the Romance Writers of America announces the finalists in the RITA and Golden Heart contests for 2006.

I’ve always wanted to write a column entitled “News of the North.” I live up in the Yukon Territory, where there are more bears than people and it snows six months of the year. It’s snowing now. In fact, it was thirty below last night. Very chilly for March.
But the reason […]