Betsy Ashton

You read that right. It's not a typo. I've been thinking about how unmoored, how unanchored, how adrift so many of us are feeling about now. Forgive the nautical metaphors. I live on a lake, so I can't help but think about water. Anyway, with the vast majority of us...

We're all doing our best to stay calm in the midst of a daily tsunami of bad news. As a writer, it's less difficult to stay home than it is for someone who works outside the home.  I mean, writing is a very solitary sport. True, some of my friends do...

#ICYMI, It Started With a Memory What did? Out of the Desert. That memory was triggered by an old black-and-white photograph of two kids hiding in a fort they'd dug in the desert. My cousin, Jerry, and I loved to play cowboys and Indians, or war, or anything else that...

It took longer than I thought, but I am proud to announce that OUT OF THE DESERT is now available in print and ebook versions on Amazon. To encourage followers of my website to try this novel, I've priced the print version at $10 and the ebook at $0.99....