What an exciting time I had this week as a guest of the Northwest Passages Book Club, which is sponsored by The Spokesman-Review and other local Spokane businesses.

The focus was on Catherine Leroy, but I also had the rare chance to talk about the different women in all of my books and why I've written about them.

The newspaper posted photos here...

It was a full house at the Montvale Event Center!

In the last month as I celebrated the launch of my new book, I realized a happy time can be as stressful as a troublesome turn of events. 

Apparently, my endocrine system doesn't know the difference between excitement about a book release and impending attack by a vicious tiger.

My body insists I consider flight or fight, when what I want is to sit back and enjoy!