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    • Part 9 – Verona
    • Part 10 – Ciao, Venezia!
    • Part 11 – Emilia-Romagna
    • Part 12 – Rome Redux
    • Part 13 – The Island of Salina
    • Part 14 – Rome Again, Rome Again
  • All About Tess
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"It's here! The Red, the Fed & the Dead Pre-Sale!"

I couldn’t be more thrilled and delighted to unveil the cover of my upcoming mystery, ...

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Join Me For My Virtual Book Signing!

Let’s pretend we’re in Italy! Buy a bottle of Chianti & start planning ...

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I Know Who Needs to Hear This (Spoiler: It's All of Us)

We often say, “I don’t know who needs to hear this, but…” Let me preface ...

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Trump is Our Shame

Like all sane Americans whose heads are full of critical thinking and hearts aren’t ...

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I couldn’t be more thrilled and delighted to unveil the cover of my upcoming mystery, The Red, the Fed and the Dead. The photo was expertly captured by real-life husband, Chris McGuire and beautifully designed by Tony Puryear. This book finds Kat & Mike vacationing at an Italian castle during the […]

“It’s here! The Red, the Fed & the Dead Pre-Sale!”

Let’s pretend we’re in Italy! Buy a bottle of Chianti & start planning your charcuterie plate! Virtually invite a friend! I will be live streaming a virtual book signing on Thursday December 3rd at 6mpPT/9pmET. Jackie Kashian will be hosting a Q&A with myself and Chris McGuire, who took the […]

Join Me For My Virtual Book Signing!

We often say, “I don’t know who needs to hear this, but…” Let me preface this by saying, “I know who needs to hear this and it’s all of us.” Take care of yourself. Please. Get off the internet for long periods of time. Turn off C-Span or MSNBC. Don’t […]

I Know Who Needs to Hear This (Spoiler: It’s All …

Like all sane Americans whose heads are full of critical thinking and hearts aren’t full of hate, my private moments are spent fantasizing about Joe Biden being declared the winner of the presidential election and us actually getting to the moment when he can be sworn in, banishing the current […]

Trump is Our Shame

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Everything in my house is broken. I have an AC that hasn’t worked since the end of April. Last week the vacuum cleaner broke. On Sunday it was the toilet’s turn. I dropped my phone and it stopped working. Then I fixed it and it started working. Then I got […]

Broken

Dear Men, We get it. You don’t like us women very much.  Before you tell me you have a mom (duh) or a wife or daughters (poor things) or that you grew up with sisters (whatever) just save it. I am truly tired of arguing with you about this. I […]

Dear Men

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In the spirit of “Stop waiting,” I’ve decided to release of few chapter of my murder mystery, Under the Tuscan Gun. If you like it, let me know.  _______________________________________________________________________________________________ CHAPTER 1   “I’ve killed Elin and put her body in the trunk of my car.”   Thus Sunny greets me […]

Under the Tuscan Gun – Chapter 1

  I was bitterly jealous of a young fictional boy whose story is supposed to make people happy. Watching Harry Potter for the umpteenth time, I was in awe of how 11 year old Harry was being thrown this lifeline: F inding out he was magical. And I was jealous. […]

The Witch Trials – a short story

If you’re reading this, you, like myself, are trying to do what you can but also facing your own economic uncertainties. No matter what our financial circumstances were before this, few of us will come out unscathed. And while it’s easy to identify the problems; crafting solutions that work is […]

Do the Most Good

Rome is like that friend you’ve known for 20 years and yet every time you get together you need to set aside 4 hours for dinner and even then you will still end up closing the place because you will never run out of things to talk about and stories […]

The Boot Camp Part 14: Rome Again, Rome Again

It’s the first full week of September and numerous news items leave me shaking with rage – or fear – or both on a daily basis. It seems impossible to believe that just 2 months ago I was in a place so magical I ceased caring about even eating, and […]

The Boot Camp Part 13: The Island of Salina

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Whenever we land in Rome I never know what to expect, at least from ourselves. The Ancient City boasting still standing structures thousands of years old is constant; airlines and people, not so much. Will we be on time? We will be overcome by jetlag and unexpectedly sleep until noon? […]

The Boot Camp part 12: Rome Redux

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