Love is worth the risk
“Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes When children appear in books for adults they are often the voice of conscience, the sound of a prophet, the whisper of innocence. It is the child who points out that the emperor has […]
Last week while meandering through the Barnes Foundation with a friend, I came upon Monet’s Boat Studio. The Barnes forces viewers through a series of rooms laid out by Albert C. Barnes to show the relationships among paintings in terms of such elements as line, color, use of light and so on, rather than in […]
Dangerous Weakness, now available for pre-order on Amazon, will be released in the wild on September 30. Between now and early November, I plan to tour the InterWebs introducing the characters, teasing readers with excerpts, and talking about my hobbyhorse, historical research. Look for an announcement in a few days about a prize package linked […]
First line Friday: If women were as easily managed as the affairs of state—or the recalcitrant Ottoman Empire—Richard Hayden, Marquess of Glenaire, would be a happier man. As it was, the creatures made hash of his well-laid plans and bedeviled him on all sides. Dangerous Weakness. One of the hardest things with a book is […]
It’s Throwback Thursday and my mind is on books again. Two weeks ago I wrote about childhood reading and claimed that I could not remember a many examples of fiction from childhood. Perhaps I exaggerated. Comments here and in social media reminded me of several: Johnny Tremain, A Light in the Forest, and Misty of […]