Today I’m going to tell you a story. This isn’t a fictional story but a true story from my travels. So, settle in with your cup of coffee, or hot tea, as this will take a while As I have mentioned many times, I have had the privilege of traveling to many places worldwide. And…
I can’t walk past a bookstore without going inside. I prefer the quaint, independent shops with lots of nooks and crannies, but if I see a Barnes and Noble, I’ll go there too. I have gone out shopping and come home with shopping bags of books from different stores. I can wander for hours, to…
I had the opportunity to visit England on many occasions, and on every trip, I’d try to think about how I could manage to live there permanently. It’s such a magical country, but then I’d think about how cold it gets (very), and how rainy it is (very), and decide my home in Virginia was…
Although the Medici Warrior Series isn’t a historical novel, I did want the references to the actual Medicis to be historically accurate since I was writing about fictional people from a real family. Whenever my characters were visiting Shade’s fictional home in Florence, I would often reference the lives of the real Medici. In the…
As I wrote the books, Luca emerged as one of my favorite characters. Luca is a Medici warrior, raised in the warrior camp in Florence, Italy, since he was a young boy and personally trained by Shade. In addition to being a highly skilled warrior, he takes his oath as a Medici warrior seriously, and…