Poke around, explore, and, above all, enjoy! Feel free to contact me with comments or questions.
“It’s okay to be a small fish.”
Publishes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, photography.
Find me at..
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Dec. 12: Layton Terrace 9200 W. Layton, Greenfield, WI. 2-4 p.m.
Dec. 16: Centennial Senior Community 400 Centennial Drive, Oak Creek, WI. 1-3 p.m.
Tours at Ten Chimneys are closed for the season. See you in the spring!
Don’t forget! I am available for talks with book clubs, either in person or online. Contact me!
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Ten Chimneys: where parts of the Lynn & Alfred Tales are set. Travel back in time and soak up the magic. http://www.tenchimneys.org
Copies of Deserving of Murder and Glass Flowers & Diamond Stickpins are now available at the Cornerstone Restaurant in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin!
Pre-orders available for #3: Shadows Behind the Scenery! Order and get a discount! Go to https://www.blackrosewriting.com/books
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For Audible Books:
Go to https://www.audible.com and type in my name to choose all books available on audio.
Go to https://www.amazon.com and type in my name. Check at each book to choose type, including audible.
To Order Books:
Visit or order books through: Black Rose Writing (my publisher) https://www.blackrosewriting.com/books OR Books & Company, Oconomowoc, WI, https://www.booksco.com OR Martha Merrell’s Books, Waukesha, WI, https://marthamerrellbooks.com OR Your own favorite local bookstore.
OR go to: https://www.amazon.com OR https://www.barnesandnoble.com OR https://www.indiebound.org OR https://bookshop.org
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Coming February 2026! But… Available for pre-order NOW! https://www.blackrosewriting.com/books Shadows Behind the Scenery Lynn & Alfred Tale #3.
On stage, actors can become anybody. And Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt want to use their acting skills to help a world ravaged by World War II. Getting to a war zone itself is fraught with peril—U-boats prowling the Atlantic, planes shot down, storms on the high seas. Once safely in London, the Lunts dedicate themselves to supporting the populace by volunteering as air raid wardens and hospital orderlies, and most especially through their cathartic dramas. The tensions of wartime and constant vigilance amid crushing fear and nightly bombings leave the city reeling. But in the most important performance of their lives, Lynn and Alfred take on the roles of spies to ferret out a suspected Nazi collaborator. He has the potential to destroy Allied secret plans for an invasion across the Channel. Invited to the suspect’s isolated manor house, the Lunts play a cat-and-mouse game, teetering on a razor’s edge to find proof of the man’s dangerous dealings with the Germans.
In late-1930s Europe, not everyone is attentive enough to see what the future holds–certain war. In Prague, Jaroslav Blaschka is desperate to transport his family’s wealth beyond the reach of the Nazis. In New York, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt are still confident enough to travel on their annual trek to Paris. As these three lives come closer and closer together, they are pulled into Hitler’s maelstrom, encountering a multitude of terrors and horrors.
Eight people are stranded by a blizzard in a remote house. Soon, one of them is murdered. Whodunit? All have time, opportunity…and motive! Hosts Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne race to solve the crime before the murderer can escape, or worse, strike again.
Three women of different generations are bound together by history and mystery, all struggling to overcome prejudice of one kind or another, in a desperate attempt to find acceptance, forgiveness, and love.
When Hannah steals her grandfather’s glass eye and holds it close, it jumps onto her eye, transporting her into a fairy world where the king and queen are at war, causing chaos threatening to spill over into the human world. Will Hannah be able to save both the fairy world and her own human world?
Spanning three generations, A Handful of Pearls embraces love, family, loss and hope. Unable to communicate, Betty, 84, silently watches her middle-aged daughter struggle. Hoping for salvation, Betty finally shares a written chronicle of her own ordeals, hoping to clinch a bond across the years.
Who is Juliana, truly? Will and Susan think they know everything about their daughter, but when she lies in a coma from a car accident, they discover a Juliana they never knew. They themselves come into great conflict over whether to withdraw life support. The real Juliana is revealed in flashbacks from her point of view.