Author’s Blog

The Water Flows

Good news, friends. My efforts last week paid off. The water, which is to say my creativity, appears to be flowing again. Sometimes it is dancing waters. Sometimes just a steady flow, but it is moving. I made great progress on The Upright Son, although I confess to you that I notified the publisher that […]

Friends Cut Up the Earl’s Peace

***** Brandy helped, or it would have if Henrietta Danbury let up her assault. “This place is a treasure, Clarion, if a bit dull around the edges. You’ve let it go to neglect. A house party is just the thing to give it life.” David leaned forward elbows on his knees, cradling his drink. “What […]

Bones

The heroine of The Value of Pity, an unusual young lady, treasures her rare and expensive copy, obsessed as she is with bones and the skeletal system. Images from Wellcome Trust Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ View or download it here: https://archive.org/details/2651377R.nlm.nih.gov

Has the Wind Died Down?

I’ve been blown hither and yon for the last several days and not just because the urban wilds of the east coast were hit with a major winter storm! I’ve been running all over social media. I have two more Facebook “takeovers” this week and two more guest blog posts, but they are all (at […]

An Excerpt for Launch Day

Another book has been released into the wild! The Forgotten Daughter went live at midnight. That makes ten (10!) full length novels, two standalone novellas, nine novellas in collections, and a bevy of short stories for may newsletter readers. To celebrate here’s one of my favorite excerpts from The Forgotten Daughter. Did you notice I’m […]