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This week marks the anniversary of the first combat flight for the “Night Witches” – the young women who flew for the Soviet Union in World War II as part of the 588th Night Bomber regiment (later honoured as the…

For anyone who missed the Historical Fiction Q&A with me and Sherri L. Smith the other night, Sherri’s posted an awesome recap on her “Research in the Real World” trip to Japan while she was writing The Blossom and the…

Sherri L. Smith and I have been busy this spring visiting Canterbury (me), writing itineraries and designing forms and a website (Sherri), and calling and emailing tour guides, buses, hotels, restaurants and historic sites (both of us) as we look…

I’ve been a Women in Aviation International member for fifteen years, and for the first time this year I attended a WAI Annual Conference. I confess: I did it in my Author Hat and not in my Pilot Hat.In our…

Sherri L. Smith and I were royally hosted by the Warren County Public Library at the Aviation Heritage Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky on Sunday, 7 July 2024. We did our American Wings double act beneath the wings of a…

 It’s nearly two weeks since this wonderful couple of days, but better late than never to tell about it and say thank you, right? My novel Stateless was on the shortlist for this award, along with eleven other books by…

I write this sitting on the Mt. Gretna porch.It was so weird flying back to the east coast on United 2213, from Orange County airport to Newark, in less than five hours, yesterday.On Friday, however, it took us close to…

We landed in El Paso on Wednesday and suddenly couldn’t steer the plane down the runway.“Exit the runway at Uniform 2 and taxi via Hotel,” came the call, or something similar, and we were like, “Um, can we exit here…

Bringing you the latest from Deming, New Mexico, where we landed this afternoon after an epic visit to El Paso, Texas. More about that in the next instalment – I need to catch up with the beginning of the week!One…

We spent Friday in Clinton, Mississippi, avoiding Weather, and continued our trip west on Saturday, This time we ended up in Shreveport, Louisiana. You guessed it: lunch included more catfish. Shreveport is on the Red River, where the “Great Raft,”…