HEART STRUNG is out today!! Despite last year’s intensity, I wrote a novel — my 7th. I wrote this story of love, music, and enlightenment, following a young couple on their trip to India, using memories of my journeys in that wondrous land. EBOOK NOW $1.99 — THROUGH 2/18/25. Get your copy on Amazon. This one feels very special, a story of love and enlightenment, and how the two are connected. Following my characters along…
In Places That Verb Your World- Around the World in Books, I’m going to create a series of posts about novels and nonfiction books that take you traveling. Armchair traveling is one of my favorite ways to travel around the world. I’m not much good on an airliner these days, unless in First Class, and so I do a lot of my traveling via books. I have my longtime favorites and my new favorites, which…
What’s so great about Italy, and why did I spend many years of my life writing about it, culiminating in my novel The Renaissance Club, which features Italian sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini? Good questions. What I keep coming up with is that Italy is Bernini, and Bernini, Italy. I mean the place is full of gorgeous, sumptuous, emotionally moving art. It’s a place so full of art you start to take it for granted that you’ll…