I’m in the mood for writing love and romance. It’s springtime here in Northern California, with roses, lilacs, and poppies bursting out. I wanted to celebrate our 36th wedding anniversary by visiting our local rose garden, and it was a truly gorgeous display! We congratulated ourselves on choosing a springtime wedding date. With love in the air, I resumed work on the romance sub-plot in my new time travel novel, Undoing Time. It’s a difficult…
For my new time travel story, I’ve moved away from the Renaissance and Italy. My new characters land several different places in time, but most important to my new story is Colonial America and 18th century London.
It’s hard to avoid noticing — all my novels are set in Italy. All or part of all three of my stories take place in that magic land, Italy. It began as an homage to the most fabulous traveling of my life, an art history tour of Rome, Assisi, Florence, Portofino, and Venice. Even just one of those places makes you want to fall in love — if with nothing more than this beautiful place.
LOVE STORIES! My favorite love stories in fiction span a variety of genres and authors. But there are some common threads. I like love stories that feature a heroine who has to shed her illusions to find love. Most of my favorites aren’t what we’d technically classify as romance novels. The stories are often broader.
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…
Choosing the best Amazon categories for your novel is perhaps the hardest step in marketing a book, after choosing the title and cover. But it may be one of the most important factors in making your book discoverable. Amazon is the largest sales platform for books, and there are approximately 11,000 categories to choose from.
Ever since I read Ann Patchett’s novel Bel Canto and her luminous memoir about a friendship, Truth & Beauty, Patchett has been one of my heroes. She has a way of reaching into your heart and wrenching the “truth and beauty” from deep within you. Whether the story is tragic or not, I feel uplifted by the depth and vividness of her characters and the compassion she brings to their stories.
When I’m looking for gifts, my thoughts always turn to books – naturally! For a reader, discovering a new book is a great and long-lasting treat. It will stay long after the chocolates are eaten and the lights turned off.
Somewhere along the line, I decided to break a rule. I’m a writer of women’s fiction, and my first WF novel was time travel/magical realism. The second also had a supernatural twist (ghost), but i chose to return to time travel. The rule I broke in WF was to feature the time tour guide from my first book, a male protagonist. So now my genre is science fiction or science fiction romance, but my cover…
At last, it’s here — my new story of time travel, adventure, mystery, and love. The Time Gatherer is available on Amazon today in ebook and print! Why I love writing time travel begins with why I love history. You learn so much about the present and yourself from studying how we got here — what in the past brought our civilization, culture, and individual selves to this point. The human condition evolved over a…