Donna Hechler Porter

I am glad I am not a monarch. But more on that in a minute. I have been watching CW’s Reign the past few months on Netflix. Now let me be...

“Yet it was not heavy, or pompous. It managed somehow, to combine vastness with delicacy; titanic proportions with grace and warmth . ....

I have always wanted to live in an old house with history (although I draw the line at ghosts.) I also wanted said house to have lots of...

I don’t watch a lot of television. Having said that, I will admit I have had a run lately on good quality shows – Poldark, When Calls the...

A writer never knows when a character will pop onto the page and steal the scene. One such character was Grayson Cayle in Keeping...

Apparently, I have been using the term “vintage” wrong. It applies to something that was in popular vogue in the past, went into a period...

When, in the course of human events, did one nation infiltrate another and then seek to subvert the very culture of that country they...

Bunnies hop. Feet hop on hot pavement. Toddlers can hop and hop and hop . . . Dr. Seuss likes to “hop on Pop.” But readers should not be...

Blurb from Amazon. A decade after surviving a brutal attack, a mercantile owner’s daughter begins her life anew in Michigan’s Upper...

This week for Toolbox Tuesday we are going to switch from prose to content, specifically characters. After all, characters are an...