Welcome to my website. New content is being added daily. Interviews with authors, blog posts and articles from me, pictures from book signings and conventions, photos of male cover models and some of my earlier poems which have been published are among the things you will find here.
It's been interesting to me how often since my first book came out I have heard someone say they didn't know I also wrote poetry, or danced, or went primitive camping with my medieval reinactment group or many of the other things I do or have done throughout my life. So, I decided to share some little slices of these various threads which come together to make this writer and this writers life a full tapestry.
I hope you will enjoy what you find here and return again.
Love and light,
Debra
Word Dreams
Words swell up within
hauntingly hounding
my sleep
they speak to me
in complete paragraphs
the story presents itself
I wake
it's 2:00 a.m.
I must go to sleep again.
Morning shakes me
from deep slumber
I rise
pen reaches paper
sentence begun
but the story has run
away.
Published in Grandmother Earth, 1998
Onions
We meet as onions
slowly
outer layers peel
away
we touch
tears form
layers peel down
a little deeper
water turned on
I thrust myself
under
no longer able
to bear tears
maybe
we shoud have
peeled a little slower.
Published in Bellowing Ark, Jan. 1997 and in Tennessee Voices 1997/1998
Twilight Dips
Twilight dips
elegant fingers
over tree tips
into shimmering lakes
deepest blue
Ripples spread
fingers twirling
swirling symmetry
calling out to fish
from deepest depths
Fish rise
fish dive
fish mate
fish spawn
fish die
circles
cycles
fishly life.
Published in Bellowing Atk, Jan. 1996

Welcome June!
Tell us about your latest release.
Give Us This Day is a contemporary inspirational romance set in the Seattle area due out February 1.
When Jess Colton walks away from his past, he leaves alcohol behind but replaces it with a food addiction, yet nothing Holly Harrison does will allow her to escape from her mistakes. Can their romance survive the obstacles from their former lives?
What sparked the story idea for this novel?
One day I brainstormed scenarios of what I felt would be the most unlikely romantic relationships. I'm sure these ideas were influenced by situations and people I've known in real life. In Give Us This Day, a story about an obese computer geek and a woman who wears a prosthesis seemed like quite a challenge. I wanted to try to write something different, a story not like any other I'd heard about. The story allows a lot of room for the necessity for God to work if Holly and Jess' relationship is to survive.
Do you have any writing rituals or favorite places to write?

Writing a book takes planning, scheduling, marking out blocks of time to write. I came across this writers clock a few months ago as some of us were sharing pics of it around our facebook sites. Isn't it fun? January rolls around and many of us start buying calendars and planning our schedules for the year, taking stock of where we are and where we want to go.
It has become my practice to choose a word for the year, going in to the New Year. Last year, throughout 2011, my word was release. I certainly received plenty of that, in ways I could never have imagined. This was a reminder to me, to be careful of what I ask for. Going into 2012, I will admit the selection of my next word was much on my mind. After much contemplation I selected my word for 2012.
My word is abundance.
Webster defines Abundance as:
1: an ample quantity: profusion
2: affluence, wealth
3: relative degree of plentifulness
When I tell people of my word for the year it is interesting how their eyes light up. Several have told me it seems the perfect word. And it is a good and positive word, however like any word, it will bring lessons and challenges with it.
We are barely into the year, not even past January and already I have had doors opening in more than one area. Good, yes, but with this I have needed to make choices. It is not that one choice is better than another (or if it is so, I am not seeing this as yet) but the reality is I cannot be walking through all the doors. Choices must be made.
It is much like being presented with five different kinds of cookies, or ten flavors of ice cream.
Each choice will present it's own rewards, challenges and lessons. Such is life on this planet. I welcome it all.
Some of the abundant things in my life this year are related to my writing. I am with a new publisher and I have new books coming out, my first book trailer is in the works and there is the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention in Chicago in April to look forward to. I'll be taking my first train ride from Memphis and back, something I am quite excited about as I have always loved to travel and experience new things.
Abundance? I am ready for it, with all the associated joys and challenges. Life is a grand adventure. Anything is possible.

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Debra enjoys speaking to book clubs and on writers' panels. To schedule an appearance, please contact Debra.
Welcome to my website. Please pull up a chair, accept a virtual cup of tea and allow me to share a glimpse into one author’s life.
Explore and you will find fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Make-Believe Mondays is where I’ve interviewed authors of fiction. In my photos section you will find RT Book Lovers conventions, photos of the male cover models that grace the covers of romance novels and costume parties. I do love a good costume party.
Oh but rather than telling you all about myself, let me show you. Browse and explore.
I hope you will come back to visit again.
Love and light,
Debra
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