The Story Behind the Story

The Story Behind the Story

Chasing Happy, set in two towns I’ve called home—Gilbert, Arizona, and New Smyrna Beach, Florida—took three years to write. The story springs from a deep well of emotion that early readers say they sense in Ash’s tale. A young man in my life struggled with same sex...
Time to Woman-Up!

Time to Woman-Up!

People who don’t know me will think I’m one of those crazies who love to catapult into controversy—the LGBT fray in this case—when my new novel, Chasing Happy launches September 1. They would be wrong. I like to be liked, more than just about anything—short of caramel...