It’s the eve of Christmas Eve, and I’m happily lost in the rewrites for my current book, The King’s Messenger (due out in August in the UK and in the spring of 2025 everywhere else), and my own space is a warm little haven of lights and the spiced scents of baking and...
It's mind-boggling to me that this post is now ten years old. I wrote it first for my now-shuttered blog (called A Woman In Jeopardy), on Valentine's Day in 2013. It remains just as relevant now, I think, so I've decided to transplant it over here, against the day...
June 11th is a special day in my calendar, because it’s the birthday of Thelma Daw, one of my Australian readers. In 2010, Thelma’s daughter Corinne emailed me to say how much they both enjoyed my novel Mariana. Corinne had read it several times, but Thelma had gone...
From now till 25 April 2022, my Canadian publishers, Simon & Schuster Canada, are hosting a special sweepstakes giveaway of Scottish gift items (for Canadian entrants only, so sorry). You can learn more by visiting this page! “There’s no’ a day in a’ the year, We...
It’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States, just south of where I live—where I have family, many friends and treasured readers, and ancestral roots that dig in deep. I had, in fact, five ancestors who came across from England on the Mayflower. As a former museum...
If you've been waiting for the release of the audiobook of The Vanished Days in the USA, then wait no longer! Today's the day! I've found links for you from Audiobooks.com where you can listen to a sample of the opening pages, and from Audible.com where you can listen...
I’m never entirely sure that I’ve got a new book till I get the first sentence. Up till that moment, it’s only a thought taking shape in my mind—reams of research connected by characters tied to a timeline that simply won’t leave me alone. So the moment that I hear...
It’s the first question most people ask, and the hardest one for me to answer, because there’s no simple reply. I usually interweave stories from two different times in the same book. Sometimes both those timelines are in the past, so I could answer that I write...
