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Celebrating my 100th Blog Post and Reflecting on the Writing Journey

I have you to thank, my blog readers, for it is you who have given me the confidence to soldier on through the murky world of publishing today.

Secrets of the Scajaquada? Treasures of Tonawanda? Or…

This month I am asking readers, what are the undiscovered gems in Buffalo and the surrounding area that I need to visit this year?

Publishing My West Side Story: It’s About to Get Real

Like every would-be author discovers, if writing a book isn’t difficult enough, the ordeal of trying to get it published tests all one’s powers of endurance.

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Greetings Friends and Readers!

I write retro-fiction about American life between the 1960s and the 1990s, with characters and settings from Buffalo, NY, and occasionally other locales.

The plotlines are universally recognizable to women of all ages, I’m told, and the insights are deeply meaningful across multiple generations.

The Buffalo Trilogy

Book One: Virgin Snow

Published in 2023, this novel follows a young West Side girl as she navigates the tragedies and triumphs of her teenage years.

Book Two: Black Ice

Published July 2026! Leaving behind a recent tragedy in Buffalo, Cosi McCarthy pictures The Big Apple as a real-life Oz, but it isn’t long before the curtain parts and she finds herself on thin, black ice.

Buffalo Book of the Month: Orphans and Inmates, by Roseanne L. Higgins

Just starting this historical fiction series that begins in 1830s Buffalo, and Ciara Sloane is a character I want to know more about! This is the first in an eight book series about life in Buffalo's poorhouses.

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