The Goddess of the Returning Light
'It will be ten degrees below freezing,' they said on the news this morning. 'For the first time since it was devised, the government is calling this a Level 3…
The Children of Lorenzo de’ Medici
I've often wanted but never dared to make a case for historical fiction being more dependable than modern history books. Once the fiction writer is steeped in her research material,…
A Rainbow New Year
When the Chinese want to lay a curse on you they pray that you live in 'interesting times'. Times could hardly be more interesting than they have been this year.…
Start now!
When I finished The Botticelli Trilogy, I had a few months worrying about what I was going to do next before the idea for a novel about Filippo Lippi and…
Publish and be blessed
The first person I called when I heard that A Tabernacle for the Sun had been accepted by Allison and Busby was novelist Tim Pears, a good buddy who had…