When I sat down to write A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder, I never dreamed it would be a series, and that one day I would be writing the …
Sharing some favorite, maybe overlooked, books I’ve loved this year
2025 was a great year for reading for me. I’ve read so many wonderful books. I don’t have an actual count, but it was probably double the number of books …
Ask Me Anything!
In anticipation of a back surgery that I had a week ago, I asked my newsletter subscribers to send me some questions last month so I could do an Ask …
The Spirits of Route 66
Since my blog post was due around Halloween, I pondered what I could write that was Halloween related. Then I remembered—I wrote a book of ghost stories! How could I …
More Research, Oh boy!
One of the things I enjoy most about writing is research. I really do love it and I want to make that perfectly clear, because the rest of this post …
Where Do You Come Up With Your Story Ideas?
I just turned in the ninth Countess of Harleigh mystery to my publisher earlier this month and since it’s the last book in the contract, I am at that weird …
How Much is too Much?
It seems like A Daughter’s Guide to Mothers and Murder just released—well it was only three weeks ago—but I am just polishing up the next book which is due August …
The Latest Countess of Harleigh is out!
A Daughter’s Guide to Mothers and Murder releases Tuesday, June 24th. To celebrate, I thought I’d share an excerpt. To set the scene; Frances is back in Paris and she …
Mothers and Daughters and Murder!
I love history and enjoy the research I do to create the Countess of Harleigh mysteries. Similarly, I love writing mysteries—the hiding of clues, the twists, and putting it all …
Victorians on Vacation
The Victorian era was a time of sweeping change. Advances in science and medicine, industry, commerce, transportation meant life was constantly changing. One of the advances eagerly embraced was the …