This is a more personal blog than normal, friends.
This week, we lost a member of our family—our little cat, Gunny. I usually refer to him as my lawyer, C. Catso Fangola. He came into our lives in 1991. We got him for my grandmother after my grandfather died. When my grandmother died the next year, [...]

This last week, I got caught. Trapped like a trap in a trap.
Those of you who have read this blog for some time will know that I attended a Catholic girls’ academy—a school I later turned into St. Teresa’s in the book Devilish. I have told several stories about this school, but never named it. [...]

Can you believe it! It’s CHRISTMAS EVE!
I have been looking through your comments today, and I have noticed something distressing. LOOK!
distraught beth said…*Sigh* Yet another loss. I like all the prizes and contest you have, MJ but it gets quite self-deprecating when you keep losing because you’re just not quite clever and/or insane enough.
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What a week, my friends. I am sorry it took me so long to update. I have had not one, but TWO book deadlines, and my father had an operation. So I was trying to finish both Scarlett and Let It Snow while bouncing around between New York and Philadelphia. When it gets like this, [...]

First, there are some new elements of the site I want to point out. For those of you writing book reports, now there’s an expanded bio, updated Girl At Sea information, and . . . drumroll . . . a PODCAST! The first one is just me, talking about the creation of 13 Little Blue [...]