Where I wish I was: Tuscany, Italy Very excited to start counting down the days to publication of A Thousand Perfect Things. OK, it’s...

Snappy chapters and still a deep read. What’s the best kind of chapter? I’d like some feedback. I’ve been hearing a lot lately about the...

Mrs. Lily Langtree, a painting by George Frederic Watts. This is a younger version of Elizabeth Platt, as I imagine her. The teacher. 41...

In his youth he studied Anglic in the colonial schools, but became disillusioned. Years ago he fought in a failed insurgency against...

Edmond Muir-Smith Other characters: Tori Harding (major character), Jessa Harding, her sister, Sir Charles Littlewood, her grandfather,...

My latest novel, A Thousand Perfect Things, comes out August 27 in print and e-book.  In the next few posts I’ll run character sketches...