Kindle Flash Sale Starts at 12:01 AM Today

Tuesday, October 25, Amazon is holding a one-day flash sale of only $0.99 for the Kindle edition of Sita and the Prince of Tigers. The number of books sold in the first 24 hours determines whether the title will rise or fall in Amazon’s rankings, and decides whether...

A Piano Solo and a Radio Interview

Have you ever been quite worried or uncertain about an approaching event that you ended up feeling pretty happy about? I don’t know about you, but it’s happened to me on many occasions. I wouldn’t say it’s the story of my life or anything, because sometimes the...

Plant Politics #2

So the lantanas were nearly gone, and the African daisies contained. I had planted a couple of salvias, but they could hardly be seen because of the cosmos that kept growing (almost six feet now) and that were providing so much shade that the salvias had become...

Plant Politics #1

I’m just a sucker for anthropomorphizing. I know that animals and insects and plants (and certainly inanimate objects) don’t think and react like humans do. Nevertheless, ever since I was that imaginative child watching clouds and constructing stories around them, I...

Sita and the Prince of Tigers — Cover Update

A big thank you for voting on the cover of Sita and the Prince of Tigers. Of course I was on pins and needles waiting for the decision to be made. Although I thought both were fabulous, I felt the one chosen more clearly represented the core of the book, as well as...