Category: environment

Coincidence? I think not.

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As someone, who for twenty years, was involved in the offshore industry, I know what it’s like to have your heart skip a beat when the evening news reports an accident on an oil rig. My heart goes out to the families of the eleven men killed on the Deepwater Horizon. Drilling and transporting oil […]

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Nature’s Gifts

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To celebrate Earth Day and the work of the Nature Conservancy Council, Vanilla Heart Publishing has released ‘Nature’s Gifts.’ More than twenty pieces, from haiku to villanelles, from essays to short stories, will delight nature lovers everywhere. Take a walk in a garden or hike in a national park. Reflect on the moon. Learn something […]

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Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team

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My novel, The House on the Shore, set in the Scottish Highlands with its rugged terrain, has an intense scene in the rocky gorges of the moors and mountains, and when I was researching, two team members of Wasdale Mountain Rescue came to my rescue…supplying technical details of rescue in rugged terrain and helping me […]

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Friends of the San Juan Islands

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CELEBRATING Three Weeks Last Spring ISBN 978-1-935407-04-1 and Supporting Marine Conservancy in the San Juan Islands Midnight May 31st, 2009 – Midnight June 7th, 2009 To celebrate the release of Three Weeks Last Spring, a romantic suspense novel set in the San Juan Islands of Washington State, with intriguing plots and deeply developed characters and […]

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