I think it has been about a year since I last wrote, and since my desire to pop back in and say hi has been steady for a while, I thought today would be a good day to take the plunge. I have just spent the morning in Paris taking pictures and short video clips for a book promotion, and… Read More
Oh wow. My blog. I’ve missed you! Readers, I’ve missed you, too. I have about an hour – a breath of time – to give an update for those of you who don’t get the more regular updates of my author newsletters. (Those come out once every two weeks, and if you want to subscribe, you can do so here)…. Read More
Hi everyone – I know, I know! I disappear from blogging and then come back with a random historical post to entertain you all, but such is my life. I love history – the Regency period in particular – France (and England), writing, gardening to some extent, and cooking/ baking. And because historical writing has taken a greater significance in… Read More
I finally have a quiet day to write. School is in session for the second week, but it’s only now that I’ve been able to be free from all the flurry of activity and appointments it entails. I intended to write this summer. I made a quetsch tart – quetsch being a variety of plums that are small and long… Read More
In my early blogging days, I would have done a separate post for each one of these places to visit in Dordogne, including my most recent post on The Village of Martyrs, and it all would have been accomplished in two weeks. Now that I earn my living writing novels, and only post here once every two weeks, I find… Read More
On June 10, 1944, just four days after D-Day, the Nazis exterminated the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, killing 642 people, of which 246 were women, 207 were children, and 6 were infants. They then torched the village. They assembled the people in the square and separated men from women. The men, they put in groups in the barn, shot off their… Read More
