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Marriage Challenges for Lucie and Owen, Books 7 and 8

On Tuesday, 6 February, Owen Archer books 7 (A Spy for the Redeemer) and 8 (The Cross-legged Knight) will be available once more in e-book for the US and Canada, as well as in trade paperback with beautiful new covers from Severn House. Doubtless...

Owen Archer 5-6 Covers

On 23 January the Severn House reissue of the Owen Archer backlist in the US and Canada continues with books 5 and 6, The Riddle of St. Leonard’s and A Gift of Sanctuary. Both will be available in ebook and paperback. For the cover...

A Year in Reading

I don’t usually share publicly what I’ve been reading outside of research for my books or other activities, but this morning I peeked at the list of books I read the past year & was surprised by the number. It’s the times. Searching for...

Happy Holidays and Backlist Update

The team at Severn House judged it best to delay the re-release of the first 10 Owen Archer novels until the new year. Here’s the schedule: 9 Jan books 1-4; 23 Jan – books 5 & 6; 6 Feb – books 7 & 8;...

Owen Archer Backlist Update

I have a schedule for the new editions (trade paperback and ebook) of the first 10 Owen Archer mysteries in the US and Canada! Books 1-4 will appear on 12 December; 5-6 on 26 December; 7-8 on 9 January; 9-10 on 23 January. I’m...

On Fantasy

I’ve thought a lot about fantasy & why I am drawn to reading it the past few years, because I am now trying my hand at writing one. In my favorite fantasies (particularly Ursula K LeGuin and Robin Hobb) I appreciate the deep metaphors...

Big News for the Owen Archer Series

September marks the 30th anniversary of The Apothecary Rose! And I’m delighted to announce that for the first time, all fourteen books in the Owen Archer series are going to be together under one publishing roof for the US and Canada. This may seem...

Shop Talk: Benefits of Restraint

In many writing workshops one is encouraged to write complete character sketches of each important character in a book, diving down into the past, fishing up everything, especially any skeletons in the closet. Not in mine. For me, one of the joys of writing...

Shop Talk: Patience and Trust vs Outline

Once upon a time, at the very beginning of my writing career, I would spend several months outlining a book before I began to write, and then revise the outline as I moved along. The revisions were not simply a matter of ensuring that...

About Time (Literally)

My refrigerator started dying a few weeks ago. Once we realized what had gone wrong we wondered about how a fairly new one had gone wrong so quickly. Or did it just feel newish compared with the longevity of the former fridge-I-detested, which had...