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My dear friend and incredible suspense author, Lena Diaz, is my guest today.  Lena wants everyone to remember that November is a special month for awareness as well as for giving thanks.  She has opened her heart to share the day she almost lost her daughter to a terrible disease, and hopes her story will […]

A Look at Campaign Memorabilia from 2012 As we sit around waiting for the tally of votes, I thought it might be fun taking a look at the lighter side of the election.  Here are some bipartisan photos of campaign memorabilia I took during the past month.  Hope you all enjoy!    

In this final segment of my interview with Eloisa James, she offers advice to beginning writers. (c) 2012 Diana Belchase

Eloisa James, best selling historical romance author, tells us what it is like to write romance while being a professor at a Jesuit University. (c) 2012 Diana Belchase

Today, in part two of our interview, Eloisa James talked to me about what it is like to be a best selling historical romance author and have a father who is an equally famous American Book Award winner. (c) 2012 Diana Belchase

Eloisa James sat down to discuss her life with me and offered insights into writing. In part one, Eloisa discusses what constitutes literature and the differences between literature and genre fiction.  Tune in for three more segments in the upcoming weeks! (c) 2012 Diana Belchase

In 1959, E.R. Braithwaite wrote a book called To Sir With Love,based on his experiences teaching teenagers in London’s poor East End.  The book became a major best seller and iconic motion film, starring Sidney Poitier in 1967.  Even today the impact of his work as a teacher has inspired a multitude to follow in his […]

  I’ll never forget 9/11. Back then, I lived only a few blocks from the Pentagon and could see it burning from my apartment window.  White smoke curled against the sky like some ominous papal decree.  An occasional flicker of red was blocked out by a film of virulent pewter haze; a horror film come […]

       I’ve always dreamt of being at a grand ball and waltzing.      The image of tall, mysterious men circling a floor to the strains of Strauss, while their partners’ dresses billow behind them, is incredibly romantic – like a music box springing to life.      Too bad it only happens […]