The Mountain Between Us

My 7th book, The Mountain Between Us, releases June 1st.

It’s set in the mountains between Salt Lake and Denver but that’s not really the mountain I’m talking about. Most, if not all, of my stories, follow the arc of a character from a real bad place of being broken to a place of not broken. If you ask me ‘what fires me up as a writer,’ it’s that. That arc. From messed up to maybe not so messed up. Why?  Because at the other end is hope.

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Every Now and Then…

I hear a song that gets me where few others do, or can.  This one did and does.

Wow. 

(The note I got said this girl was 7.  Judging by the absence of her two front teeth, I’d say that’s right.)

P.S.  If I get hit by a truck tonight and you all send me home tomorrow (I’m not planning on going anywhere but in a very real sense I’m not in control of when I leave, so...) please ask two people to sing at my going home party: Vince Gil singing “Go Rest High on that Mountain” and this girl. 

I Need Some Help…

Around my house, I do the floors.  As in vacuum, sweep and mop.  No kidding.  For some reason my friends hear this and they say, “Really?”

“Yes.  Really.”

Anyway, my vacuum died. 

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