Janet Chapman
Charming the Highlander combines a Scottish warrior, a wizard, time travel, a wintry mountain landscape, and a modern woman into a Romance that is both predictable in the sense that…
Movie to Book
In a previous blog post, I mention a specific actor and film that inspired one of my characters. Creativity is said to come from putting existing elements together in a…
Robert Harris
Pompeii is an historical novel through which the reader lives the last days of that doomed city of luxury and its neighbouring community, Herculaneum. The signs are there: Wells and…
The danger of being a writer’s friend
Authors joke about getting even with enemies, or those who simply tick them off, by writing them into a novel and killing them off or otherwise visiting nastiness upon them.…
Louise Penny
The Sûreté du Québec takes a beating in Ms. Penny's novels as the kindly but formidable Chief Inspector Armand Gamache battles corruption as well as murderers. A seemingly idyllic village…
C. J. Cherryh
This woman is amazing! Seven standalone novels. Four collections of short stories. And no less than twenty series of novels, some of them comprising dozens of tales. Even her website…
Authors’ Politics
Warnings to authors to keep their politics quiet proliferate, these days. I suppose some fear that other authors and followers will shun them on social and agents and publishers may…
Barbara Fradkin
Murder was once an odd topic for women to discuss much less to write about, but with the help of pioneers like Agatha Christie, the murder mystery has become a…
Flash in the Pan or Slow Burn
I have noticed an interesting trend: Knowing I am an author, people have divulged their own reading habits and a surprising number have confessed they prefer very short reads. "Not…
H. Beam Piper
In 1963, H. Beam Piper won the Hugo Award for best novel for his book Little Fuzzy, which was the first installment of a series that enthralled me with its…
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