Hello Friends. I was traveling for work last week, and I had the opportunity to go see a colleague’s mixed media art installation. He used pencils, crayons, paint, paper, and scraps of old paper palettes. Alone, any one of the works of art would have been interesting, but hung in a series, they were different. Seeing them the way he wanted us to see them, in that room, in that order, made a difference to me. Something in him had him make this art and hang it that way, in that space for that...

Hello Friends, As you may know by now, Universal Truth is out in the universe now. I am so proud of this book, of this series, of the whole thing. I am now officially halfway through the series. Well, I’m halfway through the fifth book in the series, but the world has the first three. It is really like an out-of-body experience every day. With The Austen Chronicles, I’ve done my best to write a love letter to Jane Austen, while creating my own stories. If I didn’t think I was doing that, I...

Hello Friends.  Forgive me if I’ve told this story before, but it is sort of worth telling again. When I told Lea that I had been...