Dear Friends, I have been traveling and writing a lot since The Stolen Chalice came out. The path of my travels is apparent in the new release SUMMER OF FIRE – available May 19. This book is set in the stunning island of Capri, off the coast of Naples Italy. I was particularly enthralled with […]

Dear Readers, August is the time when all writers take a moment to reflect on the summer season, and take a breather from the whirl of book tour. After wonderful events in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Illinois, I am taking a few weeks for myself in the heaven of Martha’s Vineyard for some sun […]

June The month of June is very exciting as The Stolen Chalice is launched in paperback. I find many of my readers like to take paperbacks on the plane. While electronic devices have to be turned off for the beginning of the flight, paperback readers can get fifty pages along in a book before permission […]

Dear Friends, March has been so busy!  The Explorer’s Code went into the gift bags at the Annual Explorer’s Club Gala at the Waldorf Astoria, (more than a thousand copies!) and here you see me with the table full of books, each tied with a pretty green ribbon. I am in New York for March, […]

February Newsletter February is one of my favorite months.  It is usually cold and dreary, but right in the middle is one of the most cheerful holidays – Valentine’s Day.   We all notice the paper valentines on the racks in the drug stores and supermarkets.  Some decry the holiday as too commercialized, but I believe […]

Dear Friends,  Just after Christmas every year I go to the Bahamas to relax, read, and think up new plot lines for my Characters John Sinclair and Cordelia Stapleton. This year I left on December 27th for Nassau and then joined the boat at the Atlantis resort and then headed south. We stopped at several […]

December 2012   Happy Holidays to everyone. Christmas in New York is always a treat.  The streets are filled with shoppers and the store windows are true works of art.  Almost every night there is a party, and black tie events make the holiday season special. I have had many book signings for THE STOLEN […]

November 2012  November is another month of travel for me.  I am heading to England on the Queen Mary 2 for research on another Sinclair novel. There will be a lot of Earl Grey tea and Victoria sponge cake to keep me fueled up on my travels.  My research will be at the The British Museum […]

October October is one of my favorite months.  The third week of the month is when the leaves change in the Hudson Valley.  Suddenly, overnight there are reds and oranges and brilliant yellows.I am finding my writing is becoming vivid as the fall colors. With nature on fire, I am writing about astonishing things. In the […]