Author’s Blog

Is August Still Summer?

While the western US continues to suffer from dangerous heat, here in the urban wilds of eastern Pennsylvania, we’ve cooled down a bit, and there are other signs the season is waning. I’ve been peering over my monitor at the apple tree next to my patio. It is an aging tree covered in woodpecker holes, […]

Telegraph, a Victorian Marvel.

Join Ramona Elmes as she describes the impact the telegraph had on Victorian life and on her novel The Intimate Words of a Liberated Lady. Today, I’m excited to share details about the telegraph, a Victorian marvel. In my book, The Intimate Words of a Liberated Lady, a lord and a widow are blackmailed to […]

Working Into Evening

Moonlight Sonata?

This week let me share with you the challenges in writing about composers in the early 19th century In the opening passage of “Music in the Night” my vision was that Annie would be playing the Moonlight Sonata. The story takes place in 1820, and Owen heard her play it seven years before, in 1813. […]

Home Again

Alas no blog this week. I will slide back into my desk care tomorrow, refreshed with new ideas, and write…but first coffee