Online Communites

What Can Internet Communities Do For You? An internet community begins quietly, in a group hosted by Yahoo or Google, in the comments of a blog, or in a single thread of a multi-thread board. Such simple beginnings can blossom into lifelong bonds between posters....
My First Book Signing

My First Book Signing

When you sign books at the annual Romance Writers of America Literacy Signing, it’s pretty much guaranteed that you won’t be the center of attention unless you’re a New York Times bestselling author. It’s 500 authors or so in one huge...

Spartacus, Rome and Patriarchal Society

When I was writing Dinah of Seneca, one of the reasons I decided to use the Romans, Vikings and Northeastern Native Americans in the same universe was to compare and contrast their societies. The Native Americans of the Northeast were built on a matriarchal base. The...

“Kill Them All!”: The Spartacus Finale

I started watching this show because I pay attention to all things Romans these days. That’s because my book coming out next month, Dinah of Seneca, deals with alternate history Romans and I’m working on its sequel.  My world is not that close to the world...