May Gray, June Gloom
I’m dusting off my old Family Genius mysteries and looking for new covers. We’ve decided to go with cartoon-style covers so we can get more mystery elements into them. What do you think of this one?
writing
Not A Garden Party
The life of an author isn’t all boas and fascinators
Inspiration
Writers get their ideas from life: snippets of conversation, the behavior of people in a restaurant or airport, reading the news, just watching the scenery go by from a car. . . Quite often just a line or two I’ve read in a book or heard in a play or song will trigger an entire scene. So … Read more
Here Comes the Sun!
Thank you everyone who sent me cheery messages after last month’s complaint about humorlessness.
ARE YOU LAUGHING YET?
I don’t know if it’s age or the constant barrage of bad news or just exactly what is causing this malaise of humorlessness, but I’m having a hard time finding humor, even in books by my favorite authors. Even social media isn’t offering much in the way of funnies, although the cute kitty pics are … Read more
Social Media
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Happy New Year!
So, I’m a little late. Happy new year anyway! Have you made your resolutions? I’m resolving to ask more questions and keep my opinions to myself more often. What do you think my chances are? I shared the new covers for the first three books in my new School of Magic historical romance series in … Read more
Floating down the Danube
I’m just back from a river cruise!
Victorian Research
I’m still heavily researching my new Victorian Edinburgh series–the School of Malcolms. If you want to see what I’ve been doing, pop over to the Word Wench blog. Here’s a link to my post on Victorian train travel and another on knives and swords. And if you use a computer keyboard, you might want to … Read more
Instinct vs impulse
As I grow older and realize life is growing shorter, I give in to my impulses far more often than I should. Of course, when I was young, I was poor and didn’t have the money or time to buy that pretty pillow or the stack of books on Mayan history. I was forced to … Read more