Donna Hechler Porter

I’ve set the final release date for Breaking Promises (which is two weeks earlier than planned) on May 28, 2015. So, I feel this is a post I simply MUST make. I feel I should offer all my readers a fair warning. The red flags are up. I have a dart board attached to my chest. I am ready to run if I need to. (After all, I have to write that third book.)

Okay, so my boys are learning to drive. Actually, we’ve been at it a while now. But yesterday, while one of them was driving and I was sitting in the passenger seat, I thought for the first time “Geesh, why do I have to live in this time period where it is dangerous to even let them leave the house alone?” Then, I heard a voice in the car, and no, it was not from the kid in the backseat – “life has always been dangerous. Two hundred and seventy years ago . . .

It finally happened. I put a character into a such a stressful situation, I had to get up and walk away from the computer. Poor David. And it was all Jackson’s fault, sort of. I love writing. I love the craft of creating the characters, giving them their own little strengths and weaknesses, putting them into situations they can’t seem to find any way out of.

. . . Not only do mothers sacrifice their bodies to bring children into the world, but they lose THEIR time, THEIR interests, and have to broaden THEIR goals and THEIR world to include their children. A woman’s life is never the same once she has children, and for most of us our life is divided in half, our life before children and our life after children. It could be said that Keeping Secrets is a story of two mothers – Mary McKechnie and Abigail Cayle – both of whom sacrif

You know you’re a book nerd, or a writing nerd, when the most exciting thing that happens over the Fourth of July weekend is finding the old path your characters would take from Richmond, Virginia to Bedford, Virginia. But that’s what happened Saturday night, and boy did I do a happy dance.