James Bond, Jack Sparrow, even D'Artagnan -- we're used to the male trickster as hero, or at least as the protagonist of his own story, but female tricksters are few and far between.  Elza, hero of The General's Mistress, The Emperor's Agent, and now The Marshal's Lover, is a female trickster.  She is a secret agent, the wily, seductive, libertine ( Read more... )

So now that some of you have started reading The Marshal's Lover, any thoughts?  I'd love to hear from you!

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The Eagle's Heir is out!  It's available on Steam, iTunes App Store, Google Play, Amazon, etc!

I can't wait to hear what you guys think of it!

Today you can play the first three chapters of The Eagle's Heir for free!  The full interactive novel will be available on March 30, but you can go ahead and sample it now.  Here's the link for the first three chapters: https://www. ( Read more... )

I'm happy to at last reveal the cover art for The Eagle's Heir, my interactive novel with Amy Griswold which will be released on March 30 by A Choice of Games!

A small teaser from the flashback in Chapter One, with your grandmother, Madame St. Elme...

Each afternoon you practiced with Alexandre.  Your grandmother watched you go through the drills ( Read more... )

It is with sadness that I say goodbye to the inspiration for Rodney's cat Newton in the Legacy series, my cat Selene.  Though she was only eight, purebreds are prone to all sorts of things, and she passed away of liver failure.  My dear Selene will be so missed!


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The month before I turned five years old, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's Cleopatra aired on US network tv.  The movie was ten years old then, but it had been a great sensation and if my parents had seen it in the theater, that was ten years ago.  (Remember, there were no VCRs or DVDs in 1973 -- you watched things when they aired or not at ( Read more... )

I generally don't start sharing something I'm working on when it's just an idea -- before the point when it becomes clear to me that the sketches are going to really and for certain turn into a book.  For the last few months I've been playing with a new project, a historical fantasy set in the Roman world called The Eagle and the Owl.  It's far ( Read more... )

Amy Griswold and I have finished our interactive novel, The Eagle's Heir, and delivered it to our editor.  We'll have edits and revisions to make, but The Eagle's Heir is essentially done.  It should be out later this spring ( Read more... )