Celebrate National Poetry Month With Me

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Celebrate National Poetry Month With Me

My first love growing up was poetry. Though I had dual majors in college, I was an English Lit major at heart. Politics was fun, and stimulating, and, well, practical. But I reveled in the literature course work. Who wouldn’t – homework consisted of reading. Poetry, the classics – my battered, dog-earned, written upon Norton’s Anthology of English Literature was my most prized possession. It still is.

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April Newsletter

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April 2013
Volume XXII

Dear friends: 

Spring has sprung! April Fools — no, it hasn’t. I’m writing you from Colorado today, where I am currently enveloped in a heavenly blizzard. We’ve been here for the past few weeks on retreat and have had two major winter storms, both in the 14-inch range. I don’t know if you’ve read about my rather unique upbringing in the wilderness — if not, here’s a little of it in my unofficial bio, and an essay I did about growing up in the woods. Oh, chickens, there’s something about snow on the pine trees that yanks me back in time. 

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On What Do You Do When You Finish Writing a Book?

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On What Do You Do When You Finish Writing a Book?

A major capital M Moment in my mythology. Catherine Coulter and I have just finished the revised version of our first novel together, The Final Cut. We started the research in June 2012, writing began July 15, 2012. Nine months and three days later, we've birthed a massive, intricate international thriller, introduced a whole new cast of characters for the 'A Brit in the FBI' series, and created a new iconic male lead -- Nicholas Drummond -- a man whose skills and repartee rival James Bond. 

So what do you do when you've just sent off a behemoth of a novel that's consumed your every waking moment for the past nine months of your life?  Here's a glimpse into my 24 hour post-partum period:

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