I can’t walk past a bookstore without going inside. I prefer the quaint, independent shops with lots of nooks and crannies, but if I see a Barnes and Noble, I’ll go there too. I have gone out shopping and come home with shopping bags of books from different stores. I can wander for hours, to…
I had the opportunity to visit England on many occasions, and on every trip, I’d try to think about how I could manage to live there permanently. It’s such a magical country, but then I’d think about how cold it gets (very), and how rainy it is (very), and decide my home in Virginia was…
Although the Medici Warrior Series isn’t a historical novel, I did want the references to the actual Medicis to be historically accurate since I was writing about fictional people from a real family. Whenever my characters were visiting Shade’s fictional home in Florence, I would often reference the lives of the real Medici. In the…
Throughout the six-book Medici Warrior series, the reader will be introduced to the estate that Shade named after his pet name for Kate, Bel Rosso. Bell Rosso is Italian for beautiful red, and his tribute to her bright red hair. In Book One, the 3,000-acre estate that Shade acquired through a business deal with Alec…
I listened to music on shuffle last week, and a song from Phantom of the Opera came on. It’s one of my favorite Broadway plays. I think I’ve seen it seven times, plus I have the DVDs of the movie and the stage play. It prompted me to make a Facebook post about the play,…