Quick trip to France… for research purposes
April 16th, 2022For spring break this year, we finally had the chance to travel! Outside the US, and for a full week! So… we headed to the south of France (March 26-April 2). Using Arles as our base city, we visited Fréjus (on which I’ll do a separate post), Avignon, Orange, Vaison-la-Romaine, Nîmes, and Marseille, all of […]
Now available for pre-order!
December 23rd, 2021I’m excited to announce that The Dark Before the Dawn is now available for pre-order before January 4th, 2022 in both ebook and paperback on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and on Apple Books!
It’s been a minute, but finally…
December 12th, 2021The Dark Before the Dawn finally has a release date! I am self-publishing on January 4th, 2022! It will be available in both e-book and paperback through Amazon. Because I’m so new to all this, I have yet to find out whether or not it’ll be available in brick and mortar stores, such as Barnes […]
Characters – fictional or not?
October 18th, 2020I’ve made a family tree of the characters in The Dark before the Dawn, as I’ve been asked which characters actually existed and which are fictional.
Learning from others
October 18th, 2020For a history lover, reading others’ works and learning from them is such a pleasure! Especially since my passion for Roman history doesn’t coincide all too often with my daily work as a French teacher. I mean, there’s the whole history of the Gauls but that doesn’t come up too often when teaching the imperfect […]
Music questions for all the readers and writers out there…
September 27th, 2020Do you associate certain songs with a specific book or character? While reading, were you ever listening to a song that has now come to represent that book? If you were writing, do you let music guide you through the chapters? The answer to all of those, for me, is yes. I have a playlist […]
History lover- What a ride (and NOT in a carpentum!)
September 20th, 2020Writer or not, anyone ever have that time or moment in history that you just can’t get out of your head? For me, that’s what the Roman Empire and Roman Britain have been for about 10 years now. When I first saw the 2011 film, The Eagle, (based on Rosemary Sutcliff’s novel The Eagle of […]