Domenico’s Table is for sale! Thank you, everyone, for your patience and support. From the reviews I’ve been getting in I believe the wait will be worth it. You can go directly to amazon.com or Barnes & Noble to order print or digital copies of the book. Also, you can check out my website at […]

… And here’s what the Portland Review has to say about it: Domenico’s Table is the second novel by Teresa Neumann and an incredible story regarding love and war spanning through the 1940s and 2001. The novel is a beautiful story. With a climax you do not expect, Neumann magnificently outlines and defines the evils of […]

Seattle’s Festa Italia 2012 was fantastico! The weather was perfect and the people who attended the Festa were delightful. I love talking with my readers, so if you were one of the ones who bought a copy of Bianca’s Vineyard, mille grazie!  My daughter Hannah accompanied me this year. In addition to helping me at […]

  I am in the midst of reading Adriana Trigiani’s great novel, “The Shoemaker’s Wife.” If you liked Bianca’s Vineyard, you’ll love this book.  Trigiani’s writing soars with the greats of literature. At one point I was so enraptured, I told my husband that I really didn’t care so much what happened with the characters […]

Hope this finds all you reading friends finding relief from the summer heat at the pool or lake, lounging beneath a shade tree shade with a good book! Here, at Always Summer Books, we’re doing the same, and what a summer it’s been so far. Family invitations and obligations took my husbandDave and I to […]

Ah, yes. Deep summer is here, and with it the heat that forces us to slow down a bit and enjoy life.  Now that the book cover for Domenico’s Table, the sequel to Bianca’s Vineyard, is done, and the manuscript is about ready to go to the editor, I’m hoping to do just that soon. […]

There IS a shore called Loved and Being Loved.

Spring. Sunshine. Gardening. Picnics, concerts in the park, swimming, and reading. Here at Always Summer Books, every season is summer reading time, and spring is no exception. I’ve got reviews of a few more books to share with you, and also the upcoming schedule for Bianca’s Vineyard book signings (see below). For those of you who […]

As I finish up the sequel to Bianca’s Vineyard (to be released this fall), I want to send out a big mille grazie to my readers.  Your encouragement and the stories you’ve shared with me over the last few months have strengthened me in ways you can’ t imagine and have greatly enriched my life.  And […]

  Albany, Oregon’s “White House” that is!! Debbie Lusk, owner of a lovely B&B in Albany called The Pfeiffer Cottage Inn, and a representative for Travel Oregon, invited me to speak at her Chick Lit Book Club on Thursday, Feb.2.   It was held in a beautiful historic home, The Cathey House which is dubbed “The […]