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Art in My Life and Stories

Why Art and Artists? My time travel novels often feature art and artists—you may wonder why. It’s because I grew up with an artist father who painted constantly and invited many artist friends to our home. He took us to working studios, local art exhibitions, and art museums in the Los Angeles area. The smell of oil paint and turpentine evokes childhood memories. Saturday afternoons, watching my father mix oil paints and dash paint onto…

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Sculptor, Quaker, Spy – A Character Interview

A character interview with Patience Lovell Wright This is a character Interview with Patience Lovell Wright, a Reviolutiuonary War era sculptor and featured character in the time travel novel UNDOING TIME. Women artists feature in my stories because they don’t feature enough in art history. It’s my way of bringing to our attention extraordinary painters, writers, sculptors, and musicians who didn’t make it into the canon of history — precisely because of their gender. Patience…

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THE TIME GATHERER IS ON SALE NOW – 99 CENTS! Or free with Kindle Unlimited.

THE TIME GATHERER IS ON SALE NOW – $.99!  Can a young timegatherer find love in another century? Not if a secret society out to eliminate time travel finds him first. George St. James has been genetically gifted with the ability to move through the centuries, but will he find a purpose in folding time? Once he meets Elisabetta Sirani in the 17th century, one of the most gifted and beautiful women artists of her…

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FREE preview chapter of The Renaissance Club, my time travel novel, a love story

In case you haven’t read about this already, I’m giving away a free chapter of The Renaissance Club, due to be published by Fiery Seas Publishing in January 2018. You can claim one from Instafreebie here, or simply by going to my website.  Would you give up everything, even the time in which you live, to be with your soul mate? May Gold, a college adjunct teacher, often dreams about the subject of her master’s…

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Time-traveling in Italy

While researching time-travel novels as I work on my novel, The Renaissance Club,  I saw that Google can grab plenty of articles that answer the question, “When is the best time to travel to Italy?” But none answered, “The Seventeenth Century.” It seems Rick Steeves and Frommer’s can’t propel me back in time to the Renaissance and Baroque to watch splendors of art and architecture arise from the workshops of  Gianlorenzo Bernini and his competitors.…

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