For Jane Peyton, author of When Push Comes To Shove, who taught me how to find four-leafed clovers. Luck by Marian Allen They didn’t call him Poker Jack in prison because he liked to play cards. He was lousy at cards. They called him Poker…

Holly Jahangiri, who is a real person, twice won the right to have her name in a story. She has since become one of my go-to characters, and I’ve formed a tradition of writing Holly stories on the Sundays of StoryADay May. The Holly stories…

MA had a different cat last year. Her name was Katya, but she died. Ami and I think Katya was kind of mean, because she wouldn’t write stories for MA on Saturdays in StoryADayMay. We feel like, since we’re part of the blog, we can…