Indies Award

Good news!  Hung Over with Grandma has been named a finalist in this year’s Indie Awards! It was honored in the   Multicultural category.  The winners will be announced mid-May. Knowing that my story got the attention of such a prestigious group is very...

Serendipity?

This past weekend, a wild, unpredictable storm hit the northeast.  Sporadic rain, sleet, snow, and high winds pounded this end of the country followed by low, low temperatures.  Weather predictors had trouble pin-pointing snow accumulations or exact locations but they...

Happy News!

HAPPY NEWS! This email came last week: “Dear Ms. Crabtree, We are excited to announce that the book “Hung Over with Grandma” has won the Gold/1st Place award in the 2017 Feathered Quill Book Awards Program for the Best Women’s Fiction category!...

Sequel to Drunk on Peace and Quiet

The second book in the Stella and Jonas series, Hung Over with Grandma, is being printed!!  We expect to have it in hand next week! The book opens with a wedding: Stella says “I do” to Jonas (at the Lindside United Methodist Church) and discovers quite the surprise—a...

New Book on the Way!

Drunk on Peace and Quiet has a sequel in the works!  The working title, Hung Over with Grandma, continues the adventures of Stella and Jonas.  They are off to Alaska, visiting Barrow and Atqasuk and having a wild old time on the flight back to West Virginia.  Timmy...