Silk in Kansas
The newest issue of Lawrence Magazine features my story on Silkville, a utopian community determined to raise silk worms and produce silk on the Kansas prairie in the late 1800s. The community failed, and the silk ranch is now a…
Captivity
That could be the theme connecting my two stories in the current issue of Lawrence Magazine. One story profiles Natalie C. Parker, whose debut novel for young adults, Beware the Wild, came out last month. The Southern Gothic tale sucks…
Fiercely competitive
My husband’s family loves to play card games. For 25 years, for every holiday or family gathering, the brothers and sisters and now the younger generation have spent countless hours around the dining room table dealing cards and talking smack.…