I was a huge fan of the late Anne Rice. I not only loved her stories, but I loved her writing style. She managed to weave her personal experiences into her works of fantasy, and in doing so, made the work feel more real. It was easy to escape into an impossible reality because she…
I wanted to update you on a location I used in The Medici Warriors. As I have mentioned before, all of the sites I included in The Medici Warrior Series (except for their fictional homes) are real places. If you visit any of these cities, you can walk in the characters’ footsteps in these books…until…
As I’ve noted in previous newsletters, I have used cities that I have visited or lived in for locales in The Medici Warrior Series, so as I wrote about them, I could reference actual places and capture the feel and the history of that place. If you have read the series (and seriously, why not?)…
Oh, Rissa…how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways! Rissa is the character you love to hate. She
appears in chapter one of book one, and my beta readers all hated her by the end of the first chapter.
What is fanfiction? Perhaps you are already familiar with it. Or, perhaps like me, you were like “fan what?” If you have read the first book in The Medici Warrior Series, The Blood Covenant, then hopefully you took the time to read the Acknowledgements page. I acknowledged the encouragement and collaboration of a close friend…