What a delight to be able to give these lovely items to the winners of our drawing. Thank you so much to everyone who pre-ordered THE MIDWIFE’S TOUCH. Those who pre-ordered will receive a signed bookplate and a coaster that features the cover art of the novel. In addition, our winners are as follows: Winner…
Sometimes Life Takes an Unforeseen Twist (Yes, that’s my husband Neil with a treble hook embedded in his finger, and it wasn’t my fault.) In 2021, I alerted readers that my new novel would be published in 2022. I mailed out more than 400 custom bookmarks. Many of you received one of those. They’re orange…
Magazines have long served as one of my research resources. A favorite is “Archaeology,” a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America. In the May/June 2018 edition, I found a very short but interesting article about early horses. To summarize, Recent DNA research leads researchers to believe that Przewalski’s horses are not the last wild…
Do you know what these two items are? At the bottom is a piece of whale baleen. (Some whales have teeth, others have baleen in lieu of teeth. The plates of baleen act as a filtering system when a krill-eating whale whooshes in a mouthful of sea water and krill.) At the top of the…
My husband Neil and I just returned from a wonderful cruise to the Caribbean — a much needed break from cold winter days and also a respite from our daily parent-care work. Our ship was the Regal Princess, and we joined two couples we’d hit it off with on a previous cruise — Dorothy and…
In my current novel (Working Title: HORSES OF THE WEST SUN) I write about the ancient peoples from whom so many Europeans descend. In the novel, the two groups I write about are the Volk, who have blue eyes, and the River People, who are brown-eyed. If you have European heritage, likely you have genes…
My current manuscript (the first book of the BONE FIRE Duet) is set more than 7,000 years ago in the Wallachian Plains of Eastern Europe (now part of Romania). My main male character is Jorn the Word Singer. One of the primary decisions I had to make as I wrote about Jorn involved the words…
Welcome to the launch of my monthly blog post about the research behind my books. Allow me to begin with an apologetic…. The twenty-first century is a precarious time to write novels set in any prehistoric era. The development of archaeogenetics and genetic anthropology has sent many cherished theories to the boneyard. (Pardon the pun,…
The Athenee Palace Hilton of Bucharest. Wow! Motel 6 is usually more our style, but I could get used to Hilton. And, of course, fresh flowers! A large room and comfy bed: And a view of Bucharest! It seems like a touch of home to find a Gideon Bible in the bedside table. We have…
So early in the morning, we bid farewell to our sweet little room on the Viking Ship Jarl. We board a bus and begin our trip through the countryside on the way to Romania’s capital city of Bucharest. One of our stops includes the Village Museum, with authentic dwellings from various areas of Romania. Have…
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