It’s hard to believe that Tried as Silver, book three of the Emily Alden Trilogy, will be published in less than a month. My designer and I are thrilled to share the cover with you today. You can pre-order the Kindle edition now and it will be delivered to your e-reader on Tuesday, June 14.… Continue Reading
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. —Friedrich Nietzsche If history is mankind’s silver bullet for apocalyptic anxiety, and I believe it is, then writing and reading are most certainly its best delivery methods. It… Continue Reading
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.”—William Shakespeare The quote from William Shakespeare’s heroine in Romeo and Juliette is every bit as identifiable as the flower it extols. I’ve never given it much deep thought, though, because the truth of it seems so obvious.… Continue Reading
“Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.”—Melinda Gates There’s been a joke going around in literary circles—for a very long time now—that Memoir is currently ‘in’, which is interesting because it’s been circulating for many decades. Not very ‘current’ by most standards. The point being that everyone wants to tell… Continue Reading
“Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.”—Isaac Watts Excerpt from Book Three of the Emily Alden Trilogy— “Speaking of adventure,” she said, a lilt in her voice spilling excitement, “aren’t you just back from the Middle East, John, or was it Turkey? Wherever you were, I imagine you have some rich tales to tell of… Continue Reading
“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower It’s been almost a decade since I decided to satisfy my curiosity about Emily Alden and Corey de Koningh. Emily was lost and alone, suffering from an overwhelming fever in a huge bed in a strange house not her… Continue Reading