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Book launch tour for The Letter from the Island

I’m pleased to be joining the Bookouture launch tour for Rose Alexander’s latest novel, The Letter from the Island. I enjoyed this dual timeline novel set in modern-day and WWII-era Crete, Greece. Dual timeline novels are a genre I love, and especially a novel like this in which an elderly woman is looking back upon…

Art theft robs us all: The Louvre heist

In a normal world, it would go without saying that theft is bad. But today, with the insane “reimagine justice” movements, I realize we can’t take anything for granted. But museum thefts have always struck me as particularly pernicious. Well-known art works and priceless objects are, by their very nature, impossible to resell. They are…

Novel locations for In The Shadow of The Apennines

I don’t need much of an excuse to get out to the mountains near Rome. Years ago, I got a small place out in the mountains of Abruzzo, in the town of Ovindoli, and this is a place I enjoy escaping to for relaxing weekends out in the fresh mountain air. I love it so…

Admiring Conegliano through the vines

Earlier this summer, I was up in Conegliano, Italy – in the Veneto region – with my younger son for a track and filed race he had there. It was my first time in Coneglaino, a pleasant little town. But its real claim to fame is all the vineyards surrounding the towns in the hills…

Joining the book tour for The Lost Garden launch

Very pleased to join the launch tour for Angela Petch’s newest novel, The Lost Garden. Like me, Petch is an expat who lives in Italy, so I know I’m in good hands for her Italian tales. I enjoyed Petch’s latest novel, a coming of age tale set in Italy’s Emilia Romagna region in the 1930s.…

The beauty of Armenian khachkars

We had a wonderful vacation in the Caucasus last month – and I’ll be writing more abou what we saw in beautiful Georgia and Armenia in the coming weeks. But one of the beautiful objects we saw throughout Armenia were the traditional khachkars, or carved, cross-stone stele. These khachkcars are typical of medieval Armenian Christian…

Great to see Drink Wine and Be Beautiful featured on Trip Fiction’s blog on book covers

Thanks to talented author Lya Badgely, who brought this blog post to my attention. Great to see my short story collection cover, Drink Wine and Be Beautiful, featured in the blog for Trip Fiction entitled The Power of a Book Cover. It’s an interestting post, speaking about the power of book covers. Honestly, I’m not…

A Tuscan hideaway in Civitella Marittima

My sprinter son qualified for the U23 Italian track & field championships. This year’s edition was held in Grosetto, Tuscany. Because we booked late, everything in this Tuscan town was fully booked. Having been to Grosetto’s fabulous track for earlier races, I decided to seek out something new. I started looking for hotels further inland…

New Kirkus review for Dark Blue Waves

Pleased to have received a new Kirkus Review book review for my time travel women’s fiction/historical romance, Dark Blue Waves. I’ve loved writing all my novels, but as a huge Jane Austen fan, writng this one imagining a modern girl transported back to 1813 was a dream come true. Here’s the full review below. A…

Ghost town? No, ghost castle – in Tuscany…

You’ve probably heard of ghost towns. Towns where residents moved away, and which are now quaint relics from the past. But on a recent trip to Tuscany, I visited a “ghost castle”. Truthfully, it’s not a real ghost castle, since there were a couple of elderly residents who resided there. We spoke to them, and…