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Versailles: Photo by flickr user: http://flickr.com/photos/vitomanzari/ (Creative commons)   I’ve been tagged by Alexandria Peary to do a post on my writing process. Alex is an incredibly talented poet…occasionally, words or images from poems of hers I read 25 years ago will come to my mind. Click the hyperlink above to read her responses. And here are mine:   1. What are you working on? I’m working on the...

I’m currently outlining Book 2 in the series, BETRAYED. I hunkered down in the library with some research materials and a notebook. After a few hours, I needed to stretch my legs, so I headed down the hallway. The Friends of the Library bookstore was open, and I thought, “Hm, I wonder if they have any coffee table books on Versailles.” BETRAYED takes place, in part, at Versailles, and although I’ve visited a...

Writing a novel is an incredible investment of time. So writers have to make sure they like their general premise enough to devote months (sometimes years) to “living” with these characters. With Haunted, the idea came to me in a dream. I dreamed that I was in the woods and came across a quaint stone cottage. It seemed abandoned. I approached the front door and then all of a sudden realized, this was all a trick! The...