I’ve already mentioned that one of my inspirations for The Tin Box was a former mental hospital. Other pieces of the story came from a family road trip. I recently drove that same route, so I thought I’d share a few pictures. This is the very real town of Cathey’s Valley, California. Population 300 or …
Garrett Leigh has taken time out of a busy schedule to answer some questions for us. 1. I’ve really enjoyed my visits to Britain, but those have centered mainly on London and Edinburgh. What are some places you’d recommend for a visit? Bath is beautiful historic city, as is York. Leeds is a lot of …
Kim, thank you so much for inviting me to be on your blog. This is my first guest appearance ever!! Some of my friends have recently been asking me how I happened to end up writing “A White Coat is My Closet”. It’s hard to say exactly how this odyssey began. Writing a book has …
In my new novel, The Tin Box, William Lyon finds letters written decades earlier by an inmate in a mental asylum. The inmate’s name was Bill and he was committed in the late 1930s—for being gay. I wish I could say that Bill’s commitment and the things done to him in the name of …
Thanks very much for having me on your blog, Kim! I’m really excited about the release of my new erotic romance Northern Relations. If any of you have read my recent Scottish story To Protect the Heir, you’ll know my writing has taken a bit of a historical turn of late. In previous stories, I’d …
In my new novel, The Tin Box, William finds a series of letters written in secret by a man who was locked up in a mental hospital in the 1930s. Unfortunately, the treatment of mental illness has a long and very painful history. I think I first became interested in the topic when I was …
Thank you so much to all of you who entered the Tin Box giveaway! Between Blogger and Goodreads, we had 35 entries, which is great! Technically, that is enough entries for me to give away 2 e-copies of The Tin Box. But you guys were so great about entering and about spreading the word that …
My newest novel, The Tin Box, takes place in the Jelley’s Valley State Insane Asylum. Although that institution is fictional, it was inspired by a very real place: the Insane Asylum of California at Stockton. The Stockton facility was built in 1853 and was once the largest mental hospital in California. It closed in 1996 …
I’m in a mood. Bear with me. I received a box from Dreamspinner Press today. At first I though the postal service had managed to detour it through a war zone because it looked like this: Then I touched the box and realized no, not a war, a flood. The cardboard was still pretty …
My newest novel (my 8th novel!) releases today! The Tin Box is a contemporary romance. Here’s the blurb: William Lyon’s past forced him to become someone he isn’t. Conflicted and unable to maintain the charade, he separates from his wife and takes a job as caretaker at a former mental hospital. Jelley’s Valley State Insane …