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For Halloween: Are Women More in Tune With Ghosts?

My husband and my dad both vehemently denounce ghosts, but my mom and I have both seen them. Now, intellectually, I think ghosts can probably be explained away by mundane phenomena like drafts causing creepy noises in old houses or maybe carbon monoxide...



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A Ruinous Spot for a Picnic

Hubby and I gave up cable TV a few years ago, so when we channel-surf, we depend on old-fashioned free-to-air entertainment. Recently, on Cozi TV, an old Rock Hudson movie called Come September caught my eye, because it was set in Rome, and you know how I...



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“Water takes the shape that you give it”

This cryptic thought is from Andrea Camilleri’s mystery The Shape of Water (or La Forma dell’Acqua in the original Italian). Since the concept is key to how Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano unravels a suspected murder, I won’t say what it means, but it’s...



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A Steamier Look for Seventh Sanctuary

At the suggestion of my longtime and fabulous critique partner Tracy Fobes, I’ve been meaning for a while to update the ebook edition cover of



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Sogno di Bella Iialia

This morning I dreamed of being somewhere in Italy in a seaside town built on ancient Greek foundations. Some older guy invites my cousins and me in to see his house. (Presumably my cousins are there because when we were teens, our families used to...



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House Rules

Over the past week or so, Hubby and I have binged on “Downton Abbey,” zipping through Season 1 and half of Season 2. During the same time, I’ve been editing the final proof of the “Author’s Edition” of As You Wish (hopefully out by the end of the month)....



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Filming, Follies and Finds at Highclere Castle

Since four of my books are set in Regency England, it may surprise you that I haven’t seen any of the Edwardian-set TV hit Downton Abbey. But I may have to change that, after seeing the PBS special the other night on Highclere Castle, where the series is...



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Do You Like Gladiator Movies?

Around the time my archaeology mystery The Five-Day-Dig came out, movies about ancient Rome looked like they were about to trend. I heard there was going to be a British miniseries based on Robert Harris’s bestselling novel Pompeii, that HBO planned to...



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Holiday Shopping on Amazon? Support My Blog by Clicking Thru Here

If you’ll be shopping on Amazon over the holidays, please consider getting there by clicking through from my blog. If you buy anything after clicking through — it doesn’t have to be one of my books — my site earns an advertising fee. The...



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Coming out of the Woodwork

There’s a scene in my archaeological mystery/romance The Five-Day-Dig where the excavation team comes across nails, hinges, locks and braces scattered on a floor among the ruins. “That’s what’s left of furniture after the wood decomposes,” one of...



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