Author Archives: admin_nh

When I’m writing, songs pop into my head. One of my favorite forms of procrastination entails spending inordinate amounts of time tracking down the tunes and putting together a play list—sort of like a “soundtrack” for whatever I’m writing. This … Continue reading →

The Sweetness of Tears is out today! The day The Writing On My Forehead came out, I remember coming home from a Board meeting of a nonprofit where I volunteer to find that my husband and son had gone to … Continue reading →

In my second novel, The Sweetness of Tears, (now at a bookstore near you!) one of the main characters, Jo, has a collection of words in different languages that she’s kept since she was a child, words taught her by … Continue reading →

The picture above is the wallpaper on my phone, one I like to look at every day.  It is the beginning and end of what Mother’s day means to me.  I’m in it, too–the one watching them watch the waves … Continue reading →

I am very excited to be on the two week countdown to the release of my second novel, The Sweetness of Tears, due out in stores on May 17, 2011. Getting published for the second time is like what I … Continue reading →

I was recently asked to write a piece about writing The Writing On My Forehead for almuslimah.com What follows is what I submitted… Story-Telling: The Allure and the Danger When I was a child, I remember listening in on my … Continue reading →