As an author of romance novels, it perhaps was not surprising that when I first approached Elly Peterson,  the subject of my new biography,  it was with a certain amount of curiosity about the course of her love life and marriage. Most of my book, Elly Peterson: “Mother” of the Moderates, naturally focuses on Peterson’s political [...]

There’s no sweeter music to an author’s ears than hearing a reader say, “I really enjoyed your last novel. When are you going to write another?” For many years, my answer was, “I don’t know.” There were a whole host of reasons, including the fact that writing a book is much harder than it looks. [...]