Okay, I know Thanksgiving has past, but there’s no law that says we can’t eat turkey on other days, right? And I cooked such a stupendously good bird this year, there’s no way I can keep it to myself. For the last several years, I’ve brined my turkeys in a variation of the usual salt/sugar/water/spices…

So today we’re resuming regular Tuesday/Thursday blogging until January 10–release day for A PERILOUS UNDERTAKING! First up, have you subscribed to the newsletter? There are exclusive goodies each month–all you have to do is sign up on the handy widget on the right-hand sidebar of the blog. Then, on the fifth of each month, my…

Bonus post. Regular posting will resume Tuesday, November 22. Alright, y’all–sorry for the radio silence the past few weeks. I was simply feeling too overwhelmed to post. Too much sadness, too much fear. I went to the polls two weeks ago expecting a very different outcome, and it’s been a challenging course-correction. Ordinarily I leave…

Alright, my dears, I am in the VERY LAST STAGES of revising Veronica’s third adventure which I am turning in MONDAY. (I am beyond excited!) I still have work to do–mostly smoothing out the places where I’ve torn things apart and stitched them back together–so I’m reposting this piece, a favorite from the archives. See…

Reposting a piece on this special day. Have we talked about Dia de los Muertos? I keep thinking we have, but I can’t find anything in the archives and that seems QUITE short-sighted of me. If you’re not familiar, Dia de los Muertos is the Day of the Dead, a traditional holiday in Latin America….