Tag Archives: Finding Amy

Learning to Juggle

Kate Flora, here, reporting in from my desk, where I’m trying to set priorities and get my homework done. I will start out by stating that this is grossly unfair. It is summer in Maine. The air is too hot … Continue reading

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Eeyore Works the Room

Kate Flora here, musing on a conversation I had with my husband on Saturday while we were driving on the Maine Turnpike. We seem to have some of our best conversations in the car, probably because otherwise both of us are … Continue reading

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Dreaming

When I was growing up on a chicken farm in a small Maine town, money was often tight. Bill collectors really did knock on the door, sometimes the phone got turned off, and there was a large hole in the … Continue reading

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Prepare to be lassoed: A meditation on branding

It’s a dangerous thing, when my fellow writers are talking about Santa and cookies and pajama shopping, to go and get all serious instead of writing about chocolate bark, but this is what is on my mind today. So if … Continue reading

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Kate Considers The Surprise of Taking Chances

Twenty-eight years ago, an infant in my arms and a madcap three-year-old cavorting around my house, I decided that I wasn’t going to practice law for a while. I was going to stay home with my boys. Not long after, … Continue reading

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Remembering Amy St. Laurent

This is how the book begins: It is every parent’s nightmare–your child goes out one Saturday night and vanishes off the face of the earth. It also, sadly, something that happens far too often–a sensible and independent young woman who … Continue reading

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It’s Just My Imagination . . . musings by Kate Flora

A few years ago, at one of those A-list parties where I was surrounded by some of those “famous” authors whose books are on all our shelves, I was working on an assignment to write a column for a magazine. … Continue reading

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Gerry Boyle interviews Kate Flora

OK, here’s a question I’ve wanted to ask you. You’re a lawyer. Why no courtroom series? Why not go the John Grisham route? Great question, Gerry. I realized early on that if I made my character a lawyer, I’d constantly … Continue reading

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