This post ran seven years ago, so it has drifted deep into the archives. I thought I’d refresh it and bring it forward. –t. I’m almost afraid to mention Shakespeare. There is a whole generation of readers out there, including my kids, who had Shakespeare in Love shoved down their throats in English class at
Shakespearean Sonnets Revisited. Read More »
Like skyscapers going viral in Dubai, “tall” is a modern phenomenon. Man has grown four inches higher in just the last 100 years. If the cause was genetics, that would be a freaky-fast change, but the causes are actually far more prosaic: Better food, absence of disease, and a social preference for height, which makes
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I’ve seen many pictures of women in third world countries carrying water. Buckets and jugs on their heads, or jerry cans in both hands, sometimes with babies strapped to their backs. I’m sure you’ve seen them, too. Thing is, not so long ago, everyone had to carry water from the nearest source, back to their
In the first part of this long post, I described the long process involved in turning any type of fiber (wool, flax, silk, cashmere, cotton) into strands for weaving, to produce cloth, and how labour intensive it was in the past, when machines didn’t do all the work for us. All That Was A Woman’s
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Actually, Casualties of War has been available for pre-order for weeks…everywhere else. Amazon won’t allow pre-orders 90 days before the release date, so Kindle readers had to wait a bit. Now the wait is over. The book went up on to Amazon last week. He’s an action hero. She’s an Army Ranger. Who will save whom?
NEW Romantic Suspense — now available for pre-order on Amazon Read More »
Look Around You In a second, I’m going to ask you to lift your head up and look around your current location. I want you to take a quick tally of everything you can see that has a textile component. That is, any fabric, anything woven. Okay, take thirty seconds and have a look. …
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This post first appeared on the blog in March 2012. It was, alas, one of the final posts in a series I wrote about vampire powers. [The very last post in the series, if you’re curious, was “Vampire Powers – Holy Objects, Garlic“, in June of that year.] The earlier posts in the series were
Vampire Powers – Mental Domination. Let’s talk about it again. Read More »
I first published this post on March 19, 2011. It was a little post about some of the cool historical research I was doing at the time, for a book I was planning to write that would later become Kiss Across Chains. This little nugget post ended up being one of the most popular posts on
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In the last few weeks I have been holding a discussion with my readers via the newsletter, about what they want to read. The discussion was sparked by Street Team members telling me I was wrong to stop writing Science Fiction Romance. That gave me pause, because my Street Team are a microcosm of my
…and Science Fiction Romance is Back On the Table (Among Other Genres). Read More »
As a rule, I prefer to do a general, normal post in between posts about my books, but lately, there’s just been way too much news to share. So, another announcement, today. Ningaloo Nights is a novella length romantic suspense set in Ningaloo, Western Australia. Generally, only Australians and travellers who have been to parts
Now out in print! Super hot Romantic Suspense. Read More »