My next novel, Venetian Masks, will come put this month or next. As the title suggests, a good chunk of the action takes place in Venice. Other central European cities also appear. In preparation for a fun (I hope!) contest I’ll hold when the book is released, I was going through my photos from 2011, when I …
I hope all of you are finding a bit of peace amidst the holiday bustle. My children have been shipped off to grandparents, while my husband and I fled the country. It’s been a deliciously lazy week. This is the view from our balcony: And my big decisions have mostly concerned whether to have …
Congratulations to Rush, strive4best, Juliana, and Urb, the winning commenters during the Brute blog tour. And thank you very much to all of you for visiting with me. Happy holidays to you all!
Today is your last chance to win a copy of Brute on the blog tour! Here’s the list of blog entries: https://www.kfieldingwrites.com/?p=270 Every comment gives you another chance to win! 🙂
As I prepare to drag myself and my family all over the place for the holidays, I thought I’d share two photos with you. The first one is my younger daughter working on peppermint bark (recipe in my last post). You can tell from her expression that she takes pounding very seriously. Careful drizzling is …
The weeks leading up to the holidays are really busy ones for me. I’m a university professor, so I’m always spending that time grading exams and term papers and dealing with all the end of the semester chaos. So although I like to bake I generally don’t have much time for it in December. This …
Today I’m very pleased to welcome Jana Denardo as a guest. When I started my novella, The Darkest Midnight in December, it was actually a short story aimed at Dreamspinner Press’s Advent Calendar, but it took a darker bounce. I worked it into a novella, getting the chance to research and write some of the …
It’s that magical time of the year again! No, not the holidays. I mean that it’s the end of the semester, when I can collect bloopers from student essays and term papers. Every one of the following sentences was written by one of my (university) students this semester. I have reproduced them verbatim for your …
Just a quick reminder that the Brute Blog Tour is in full swing. Drop by and leave comments for the chance to win. Today Matthew Lang interviewed me: http://www.matthew-lang.com/ Here are all the tour stops: https://www.kfieldingwrites.com/?p=270 Also, Dec. 7 is the last day to get Equipoise on Kindle for free.