Boy, I wish Blogger wouldn’t insist on being in Polish. Here are photos from a beautiful Warsaw Sunday. Wilanow Palace. Look! I sell Polish pottery! Chopin in Lazienki Park. What a gorgeous day! Spike crashes a wedding photo. I don’t know what these are called. They’re crispy and slightly sweet. We …
Hello from Poland! Here are a few photos from Warsaw, where the weather has been beautiful so far. Copernicus. Old Town. It’s hard to believe, but this area (along with most of the city) was demolished during WWII. They rebuilt it very faithfully. This mermaid is on the city’s seal. I love …
Thank you, Kim, for this opportunity to be a guest on your blog! Hello all, I’m CJane Elliott and my novel Serpentine Walls is being released by Dreamspinner Press on October 30th. I’ve published three novellas through Dreamspinner but this is my first novel-length work and I’m excited to share it with everyone. The novel …
I hope you’ll excuse the long post. But I have lots of things in the works right now and I wanted to give you a rundown of what to expect. Mark your calendars and warm up your credit cards! 😉 **October 21, 2013 Steamed Up, a steampunk anthology, releases from Dreamspinner Press. You can preorder …
I’ve already mentioned that one of my inspirations for The Tin Box was a former mental hospital. Other pieces of the story came from a family road trip. I recently drove that same route, so I thought I’d share a few pictures. This is the very real town of Cathey’s Valley, California. Population 300 or …
Garrett Leigh has taken time out of a busy schedule to answer some questions for us. 1. I’ve really enjoyed my visits to Britain, but those have centered mainly on London and Edinburgh. What are some places you’d recommend for a visit? Bath is beautiful historic city, as is York. Leeds is a lot of …
Kim, thank you so much for inviting me to be on your blog. This is my first guest appearance ever!! Some of my friends have recently been asking me how I happened to end up writing “A White Coat is My Closet”. It’s hard to say exactly how this odyssey began. Writing a book has …
In my new novel, The Tin Box, William Lyon finds letters written decades earlier by an inmate in a mental asylum. The inmate’s name was Bill and he was committed in the late 1930s—for being gay. I wish I could say that Bill’s commitment and the things done to him in the name of …
Thanks very much for having me on your blog, Kim! I’m really excited about the release of my new erotic romance Northern Relations. If any of you have read my recent Scottish story To Protect the Heir, you’ll know my writing has taken a bit of a historical turn of late. In previous stories, I’d …
In my new novel, The Tin Box, William finds a series of letters written in secret by a man who was locked up in a mental hospital in the 1930s. Unfortunately, the treatment of mental illness has a long and very painful history. I think I first became interested in the topic when I was …