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What do the novels Huckleberry Finn, The Canterbury Tales and On The Road have in common?  All of these great works of fiction employ the literary technique known as the journey motif.  Although the journey that the characters of these stories

In my previous novel, Olive Branches Don’t Grow On Trees, the theme of my book was peace.  The primary plot was Silvia attempting to make peace in her own family, while the subplot was her finding direction in her own life.  Her finding

It took me awhile to cultivate my own voice, as I’m sure it takes all writers a long time.  It was not until I began writing on a daily basis that I began to hear my own voice.  I found that the more I wrote, the more my voice developed, and the

One review of Olive Branches Don’t Grow On Trees claimed that the ending of the book was inconclusive and that I left too many loose ends.  The ending is open and I intentionally left it open so that the reader could use his or her imagination

One of the toughest things about growing up in an alcoholic household is dealing with uncertainty, the effects of which long outlast childhood.   The characters,  Silvia and Cosmo, illustrate this point very well as they are both operating from