Frontier Ruby was inspired a little by my love for ‘Anne of Green Gables’ as well as a little ‘Jane Eyre’, with some ‘goes west to the frontier’ thrown in. This story is more of the dramatic but many have told me that they found some comedic moments too. I know I had fun writing…

In Jane Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’, calm Elinor is an artist and passionate Marianne is a musician. Not that I disagree in any way to this choice, I sometimes thought that this could have been reversed, with the logical sensible sister being the musician and the emotional sensibility sister being the artist. ‘Paint and Piano’…

Originally written as the second part of my two part novel, ‘Bonnets and Aprons’, Mrs. Rutherford tells the continuing story of Fionna, who finally gets married and then joins the great migratory expansion west, ending in the Salt Lake basin territory. When told just a little of the story to help inspire the cover idea,…

When I first talked to my daughter Brina about art for the cover of this first one, I suggested a prairie bonnet plus apron look, with no visible clue to hair color or facial features of the young lady. I wanted the reader to be left free to imagine their own image of what the…