I seem to be better at producing children than novels, since I’m up to six of the former and still working on my third of the latter. Of course, the children don’t go out of print as easily, either. Please welcome Magdalen Eleanore, the latest addition to the Walton family! She was released on June 22 to rave reviews.

Some of you may have noticed that an ‘E’ seems to have migrated from her first name to her second.  The missing first E is to emphasize that the last syllable is pronounced”len” and not “leen”.  The extra E in her middle name is because she was named for my grandmother, whose name was spelled with an E at the end.  And now you know.