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I learned so much on the subject of facial wounds, reconstructive surgery, and masks during the course of writing Dare Not Tell, that I was compelled to explore the repercussions on Sophie Parker's (a major character in both my novels) life and psyche in “Ripples in a Pond,” my short story in the anthology Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women.

In France, Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille Prison in 1789 by a mob of Parisians in the opening stages of the French revolution. Since then, the day is a national holiday of celebration, including dancing in the streets, as Joe and Sophie Parker experienced it on July 14, 1939 in this excerpt from Chapter 23 of Dare Not Tell:

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Joe and Sophie arrived at the Gare du Nord in Paris on July 14.

The wrought iron rafters and dusty glass roof spanning a multitude of tracks were...

Hello! For those of you who've followed me for a while, I'm the same me with a fresh new look and feel to my website. I'll be adding weekly blog posts about favorite books from other authors, inspiration for my own books, and info about the work I do to format other authors' books.

Or, what the heck was I thinking? There are no numbered steps or bullet points in novels!

I devoured historical fiction and historical mysteries on nights and weekends as a way to escape from writing about computer software during the workday.

In all that time, it never occurred to me that I could write a novel. And then another one. Until...

The first glimmers of inspiration came from Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, an Australian TV series set in 1929 that often includes WWI-related characters...