Full moon alert!

Flashback to 1973. I was a sophomore at Central Washington State College (Now Central Washington University) in Ellensburg. The night air was clean and crisp. A crowd gathered along the winding walkways between the cluster of dormitories. The group of dorms included...

Attention Mark Twain fans!

Mark Twain, arguably the most celebrated American Humorist of all time, has long been a favorite author of mine. I even made a pilgrimage to his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, a few years ago. There I attended a Mark Twain lecture/show, and was enthralled by the...

OMG! They’re here!

Five boxes, each containing 10 contributor copies of “Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Gift of Christmas” were left on my porch by the UPS guy Friday night. I got 50 copies because I have five stories included in this gorgeous hardbound volume. That’s right—I wrote five...

Shop and click!

JanBonoBooks.com is up and running! Another step in my quest to be a viable entity in the writing and publishing world has been achieved! And I’m sooooo excited! Four years ago, when I retired from full-time teaching, I had no idea it was my destiny to have a website...

Almost free!

“Senorita! You like my bracelets?” The young caramel-skinned man scurried behind me as I labored through hot, deep, sand, eager to catch the water taxi to Pelican Rock. “No hoy, gracias,” I replied, grateful for the few Spanish phrases I could recite without thinking....