Love is worth the risk
Two years ago I began envisioning a Children of Empire sequel involving a trio of siblings, children of my h/H in Dangerous Works. From the beginning, all three have given me difficulties, none more so than the sister, Catherine Athena Mallet. With the first of that series, The Price of Glory, set and scheduled for […]
…That Caesar invaded Britain (or tried to) at least in part to get access tin deposits? A generation or more later Claudius ordered a full scale invasion in 43 AD. That one stuck. One of the attractions that time was lead. Romans were heavy users of metals of all kinds, and as they spread out […]
Last week I stumbled on an interesting article about Hemingway’s advice to a young writer. I may not be young in years, but I’m super young in writing, so I took it to heart. There are several gems in it, but the particularly timely one for me was: Don’t get discouraged because there’s a lot […]
If you’ve followed me, you probably know I like to travel. Sometimes I travel in the real world. (My list has only 15 countries, so I have a ways to go.) Sometimes I can’t, but that doesn’t stop me. I ramble off somewhere just about every day in my imagination or in other authors’ books. […]
Highlighting the facts behind romantic fiction with Jeanine Englert on root cellars and laying out the dead. When I began writing my Victorian romantic suspense, Lovely Digits, whose heroine is a layer-out of the dead and a poor one at that, I had to find a way for her to complete her work, preparing the […]