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From Chaos… light, and love

At the heart of every romance novel is a love story: two people meeting and falling in love. But of course, the unfolding of that love is never simple; ‘The […]

Books make a home – and a bright future

‘A room without books is like a body without a soul.’ So said the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero. If a room without books lacks soul, imagine an entire home without […]

Dressing my hero and heroine in Ancient Greek costumes

One of my earliest memories is of a party at my home in Alexandria, Egypt. My younger sister and I hid on the upstairs landing and peeked through the balustrades […]

Romance shines through in The Great American Read

Over the past six months, American readers have been voting for their favourite novels as part of The Great American Read. An advisory panel of literary industry professionals chose a […]

Sacrifice and offerings: Appeasing the Ancient Greek monster Typhoeus

My novel Aphrodite’s Tears is set on a small Greek island near the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. It is an island where tradition is deeply respected and ancient customs and […]

Inspiration for Aphrodite’s Tears at the Afqa waterfall, Lebanon

November is an exciting month for me. My novel Indiscretion, which won a Gold Medal for Romance at the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards and Best Romance at the USA Best […]

Fear of failure: a driving force, or one that hinders?

‘We have a saying in Greek: To dis examartein ouk andros sophou, to commit the same sin twice is not a sign of a wise man.’ So says Damian to […]

Romance: not fantasy, but reality

In publishing, books are categorised in genres: science fiction, thriller, mystery, historical, romance, fantasy and so on. This is purely for the purposes of marketing: the publisher wants to know […]

Greek mezedes, my favourite dishes to cook and enjoy

When I was a teenager growing up in Alexandria, I became very interesting in cooking. I read cookbooks, I tried my hand at recipes and I badgered anyone who could […]

‘Up-lit’: a more hopeful era in literature?

Once upon a time, being an author meant reading a lot of books, writing some books, and perhaps doing a book signing or reading tour now and again. Nowadays… well, […]