After a much needed shower (it had been 26 hours since the last one in the Seattle hotel), I’m off to Westminster Abbey, only a few minutes walk away. I had forgotten how glorious the facade is. Known to millions as the site of various Royal weddings, it is an iconic building, central to British …
Every now and then I stumble on a book that blows my kind. In preparing for my research trip I was lucky enough to come across Marion Turner’s Chaucer: A European Life (just published earlier this spring) that was the perfect resource as I finalize novel one and move into the latter half of novel …
Here’s where I’m going to research The Storyteller’s Desire…plus a side trip to Juno Beach in Normandy to see where my father landed, fought and was wounded over 75 years ago.
As I work on my second book in The Storyteller series, I think back to visiting Milan three years ago, standing in the mercado – the market square – that Geoffrey Chaucer would have stood in, the hair standing up on the back of my neck as I sensed his presence still, over 650 years …