May 19, 2026

Hello Everyone,

Happy May Day!! I hope life is rolling smoothly for you. May has always been one of my favorite months. It’s a time for renewal, with flowers bursting into bloom and the weather finally getting warmer. It’s such a gentle, pretty month.

My son Nick was born on May 1st, which has always made it a special date for me. In France, it’s the day when flower vendors...

April 7, 2026

Hello Everyone,

April is always a mixed and interesting month, with the promise of spring, sometimes a hint of warmer weather, and I once got caught in a huge snowstorm in New York on April 15. It’s hard to know what to expect in April. There is a French proverb that says, “Don’t put away even a thread of your winter clothes yet in April.” So there it is.

Until...

March 7, 2026

Hi Everyone,

Hope the winter is easing up a bit as we head into March. Winter hasn’t left us yet, and spring hasn’t arrived, but by now there are little hints of it, and the deep, bitter cold of midwinter should be disappearing.

At the beginning of the month, you’ll find Felicia’s Favorites in hardcover, a book I REALLY had fun writing. Five grown daughters each have a different relationship...

February 5, 2026

With snow here and there, and cold weather nearly everywhere, it’s a great time to tuck in at home, catch up on your reading, and for me to catch up on my writing after taking some time off during the holidays.

If you haven’t read it yet, I’m very excited about my book The Devil’s Daughter, which came out in hardcover in January and was a fascinating book to...

January 27, 2026

Hi everyone,

I’ve always liked January, because for months before that everything happens at breakneck speed. For anyone with school-age children, September is a whirlwind of schedules, school uniforms, meeting new teachers, signing up for classes, and trying out for sports teams. For parents trying to keep up with the fast pace and organizing carpools, it’s a lot to manage. By October, everyone has adjusted to the fast pace...

December 12, 2025

Hello Everyone,

I say it every year, but the year has gone by with lightning speed, and in the blink of an eye since last year, it is suddenly December again. When my children were younger, September was my busiest month, getting nine children ready for school (no small feat while they played tricks on me, switching uniforms or shoes among themselves, and suddenly the uniforms were too big...

November 12, 2025

Hi everyone,

Well, we’re warming up to the holidays. I barely got the sand of summer swept out the door, leapt into September starting a new book, enjoyed Paris Fashion Week with my daughters in October, started yet another book to work on, and here we are in November, with the holidays almost upon us. The summer is long forgotten; we are well into fall, and we’re making holiday...

October 16, 2025

Hi Everyone,

I love October!! Crisp sunny days, the beginning of cooler weather. It energizes most people, and it is the beginning of my heavy writing season all the way until the end of the year. I’m working on new books for you!!

I have two books I’d love to share with you this month. The Portrait is out in hardcover. I love this book, because the relationship between a...

September 17, 2025

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to what used to be my busiest month of the year, getting nine children back into school in September—from kindergarten to college—getting uniforms; figuring out their schedules, buying pencils, notebooks, back packs, and uniform shoes; taking them to try out for sports teams; setting up car pools; and taking them to the first day of school while they still allowed it!!

I took one of my daughters...

July 9, 2025

Hi Everyone,

I love July—it’s full-on summer wherever you are, with two whole months to find time to relax and take a break in the warm weather!!! And the July 4th holiday is a great celebratory send-off for the summer!! Memorial Day weekend is the promise of what’s to come, but July 4th is a promise delivered!!! With picnics and parties and fireworks, and summer plans laid out—fishing, swimming,...

June 5, 2025

Hi Everyone,

I hope that June is rolling out ahead of you like a red carpet. I love the month of May, which offers the promise of spring almost everywhere, and in June, we can see summer right around the corner. The weather is warm, and summer plans are firming up or are already made, with so much to look forward to. Graduation ceremonies happen in May and June,...

May 13, 2025

Hi Everyone,

May is such a pretty month!!! The weather is usually balmy and the month is at the heart of spring. In France, May Day on the 1st is Labor Day, and the tradition is for friends and loved ones to give each other sprigs of lily of the valley for good luck. There are vendors of the fragrant flower on almost every corner, and the delicious smell...

April 9, 2025

Hi Everyone,

I hope that spring is off to a good start for you. I have “book ends” for you this month, a paperback at the beginning of the month, of my book Resurrection, about a fictional pandemic several years from now where a woman accidentally discovers her husband’s affair and secret life—and second family—and the shock it is to her. As well as the people who find each...

March 12, 2025

Hi Everyone,

We’re headed toward spring although it may not feel that way yet, but the calendar says we are. I cant wait for a breath of Spring and warmer weather. And I’m still busy working on new books.

The month is off to a great start, with the publication of one of my favorite new books, Far From Home, in hardcover. It takes us back to World War II,...

February 10, 2025

Hi Everyone,

February is still heavy winter in most places, although—here and there—there might be a hint of spring, but it’s really too early for spring weather. I still hibernate in February, working on new books. With freezing weather blasting outside, I stay cozily at home and write, until the first solid signs of spring. Harsh weather is a great excuse to stay indoors and read!!! If you haven’t...

January 15, 2025

Hi Everyone,

I hope you got through the holidays, not too exhausted, and satisfied by how they went. The holidays can be so challenging, exciting, happy, but sometimes disappointing too, or stressful in families. I hope that yours were peaceful, happy and fun.

January is always a quiet month for me. Like a bear, I hibernate, the weather is cold, even miserable sometimes, and I am happiest staying home, working...

December 2, 2024

Hi Everyone,

I hope that the Thanksgiving holiday was a warm and peaceful one for you, and if you couldn’t spend it with family, you were able to spend it with friends. I like the focus on being thankful and gratitude; it’s a great reminder that even if everything isn’t perfect in our lives at the time, there is always something to be thankful for, however small. And connecting...

November 6, 2024

Hi Everyone,

November always seems like the gateway to the holidays to me, or the prelude. Kind of the way Memorial Day announces the beginning of the summer. The Thanksgiving holiday always seems like such an important one to me because it is so inclusive, and brings not only friends and families together, but is also away of including new friends and even people we don’t know so well,...

October 14th, 2024

Hi Everyone,

I LOVE October. I used to love September, but it gets pretty hectic even without young children in school. But October is such a great month, the weather is usually still warm, with a little cool nip in the air. Everyone has settled into their autumn/winter routines. I have always liked fall clothes better than summer ones, especially now with the blistering heat waves, which have gotten...

September 3, 2024

Hi Everyone,

Here comes the busiest month of the year, other than the Christmas holidays. For anyone with kids—from Nursery School to Pre-K, high school, and even college—September is a month chock-full of school schedules, organizing carpools, after-school activities, football practices, and dorm assignments, not to mention getting uniforms and new shoes!!! With nine children, September was always hands down my busiest month of the year, my head was...

August 1, 2024

Hi Everyone,

Every year, summer comes too slowly, and speeds by too fast. After a brutally cold winter, and no spring at all this year (literally overnight, the weather hop skipped from still wintry to instant summer), our minds are already turning to fall projects and getting kids ready for school. September is always a super busy month. I start my heavy fall/winter writing schedule on the first of...