Author’s Blog

The Fate of a Lady’s Companion

Juggling

Juggling two stories, two deadlines, and life works until it doesn’t. When the balls all fall on my head, I go a little brain dead for a while. The only thing for it is to take long walks and try to reboot my brain. My church project, a Trivia Night, went off with out a […]

Getting Started

Getting started on a new story—again—is never easy. I envisioned a story about Harry, the Magic Mouse for the Bluestocking Belles collection for October, Moonlight Madness. I could see my heroine seeking refuge (in a storm, of course) in a creepy house that belongs to a mysterious recluse with Harry in her pocket and no […]

I See

And I see well. I just had a follow up appointment. Post cataract surgery, my vision is 20-20 without glasses. My goodness! And I see my yard full of flowers and flowering trees. (Oh joy!) and beds with encroaching weeds (rats). I see my old vegetable bed going to weed (and more rats). A light-bulb […]

The Lives of Regency Women

Elizabeth Donne, fellow Bluestocking Belle, joins us this week to share facts about women’s lives she discovered while writing about the Ladies of Munro. Because Ladies of Munro is a series, my research for those five books turned up a TON (pardon the pun) of information, all of which would be impossible to share in […]