Love is worth the risk
Did you know that Lou Henry was the first woman to graduate from Stanford with a degree in geology? It was the late 1890s. A degree was one thing. A job was another. She married a classmate who’d been offered a job as a mining engineer and went with him to China. She learned Mandarin […]
On Friday The Defiant Daughter, lightly rewritten went to beta readers. Saturday dawned wet and very cold, and I lacked motivation to plunge into writing The Forgotten Daughter (though the first two scenes are in my head) nor to continue working on The Value of Pity. Early in the day, however, my daughter pointed me […]
I travel. Sometimes I travel by boat, plane, or automobile. Sometimes I travel by book. This week I rambled through Bath with Ann Gracie. I’ve been here before, at least in books. I’m fascinated by the Roman Baths as I am all things Roman. I’ve taken the waters with elderly relatives and a dutiful companion. […]
Highlighting facts behind the fiction with Jude Knight and her Melting Matilda The premise of my novella Melting Matilda is that an earl, the head of one of the upper ton families, could not consider a mesalliance with someone of humble and scandalous birth. Certainly, those same ton families had many scandals of their own […]
I just finished the final chapters of The Defiant Daughter, but I’m not sure how much of the end I want to give away, so here’s a bit from early in The Wayward Son. Sir Robert has come home in response to what his sister called a crisis, but he hasn’t been able to find […]