This website has been set up to tell about me, the writer. It tells what I am writing, gives examples, encourages people to linger and savor. Look below my name at the top of this page. My writing is there - What I have done and what I am doing. Sample chapters, plot outlines and lots of pictures. 'News and Announcements' tells what is happening now. The rest is devoted to my writing.
Welcome! Look around. Drop me a line if you like. Or else just 'let me entertain you.'
Welcome! Look around. Drop me a line if you like. Or else just 'let me entertain you.'
I have set up a new page: News
It has information on current events. Check it out.
About meI grew up all around the United States thanks to a family that moved a great deal. I have always loved to weave stories for and about people, and my enjoyment of people-watching led to a love of history that is reflected in my writing (I have a page here where you can sample it).
You can find me on most days at some time or another watching people, playing with my dog, clerking at a cat show or trying to knit with greater or lesser degrees of success. I also do some graphic design work on the side (very enjoyable!). |
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Countdown to Mourningtide
May 31 is not very far away. Just over two weeks, and I have a lot of things that must be done and a whole lot of things that I have done to make things ready. The cover is finished (I do graphic design on the side,) and this has been a really thorny project. The title of the book gives an idea of what it concerns, and I wanted the cover to convey it, as my other covers have done - City of Refuge is set in Akhenaten's old capital city, and Akhenaten is on the cover along with the cliffs that lie to the west of that city. Pharaoh's Son begins with a colossal statue in moonlight, then progresses to the fall of another colossal statue - and there's one on the cover from the Temple of Ptah. A Killing Among the Dead features Deir el Medineh - the hill in the center is one of that village's sacred spots, and the sculpture on the cover is Thutmose III. The cover for Kadesh has as a background a carving from King Seti's pylon at Karnak commemorating his victory - which his son Ramesses hoped to match. I wanted to use a carving of Seti for this cover, and I found the perfect one - I thought. It did not work out. One of the provably handsomest men in ancient history looked like an utter doofus. I scrapped it, finally, after a fight. This one, from his great temple at Abydos, works perfectly. My other books have previews for Mourningtide, and I will be interviewing the main character - King Seti - on my blog in the next week. It should be interesting.
Click to visit the page for MOURNINGTIDE
Look around, as I said. I have put chapters up to look through, And I have had a lot of fun setting things up. (I confess, though, that if I were to win the lottery tomorrow, I would book a cruise to the south Pacific and spend most of the time on deck, dozing in a teak deck chair...)
Click to visit the page for MOURNINGTIDE
Look around, as I said. I have put chapters up to look through, And I have had a lot of fun setting things up. (I confess, though, that if I were to win the lottery tomorrow, I would book a cruise to the south Pacific and spend most of the time on deck, dozing in a teak deck chair...)
Time To Say Goodbye...
I said farewell to my father this summer . I find myself thinking of things he would love - and realize anew that he isn't beside me to enjoy them. In the same way, though not as deep, there are characters who, following my timeline, are making their final appearances in their lives, in my books.
Seti (the main character in Mourningtide) has been dead for five years in the time-setting of Kadesh. Historically, his reign was all too short - between eleven and fifteen years. I realized how he died when I was writing backstory about one of the main characters. Lord Nebamun, who has been one of my favorite non-historical characters in the course of two books, is in his mid-eighties in Kadesh. Will he be there to welcome the troops home? I don't know. I will miss them both.
I suppose I could pick up one or another of my own books and read - but it is not the same. When it's time to say goodbye...
I said farewell to my father this summer . I find myself thinking of things he would love - and realize anew that he isn't beside me to enjoy them. In the same way, though not as deep, there are characters who, following my timeline, are making their final appearances in their lives, in my books.
Seti (the main character in Mourningtide) has been dead for five years in the time-setting of Kadesh. Historically, his reign was all too short - between eleven and fifteen years. I realized how he died when I was writing backstory about one of the main characters. Lord Nebamun, who has been one of my favorite non-historical characters in the course of two books, is in his mid-eighties in Kadesh. Will he be there to welcome the troops home? I don't know. I will miss them both.
I suppose I could pick up one or another of my own books and read - but it is not the same. When it's time to say goodbye...
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