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I’m delighted to announce that THE OTHER SISTER is a . You can get the ebook for $1.99 AND it has a link to my upcoming suspense tale: A MOTHER’S LIE.

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is just $4.99 until, but only until Jan. 21!  Start your new year with some new suspense!

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Oh, this is awesome!  It’s an ����

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I loved this book. Flat out. Had me at hello.

I found it when I was on vacation in Atlanta. My husband was at a conference, so The Son and I were doing a bookstore-and-ice-cream tour of the city. Atlanta, BTW, is a fabulous place to do this particular tour. I had heard about this title on the Smart Podcast Trashy Books podcast, and I opened it in the store to see if I’d like it.

Now, I am very leery of the “narrated by a ghost,�� trope. It’s gotten a bit old, but in this book it’s handled deft...

If you’re interested in digging into the background of “An Exchange of Two Flowers,�� there’s an excellent new book out.  Stephen R. Platt’s “Imperial Twilight,�� presents the facts and the harsh difficulties of the world in which Charles Elliott and High Commissioner Lin had to make their way.  You can check out .

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Nothing in this world happens in a vaccum.  Everything is related, especially when it comes to the desire for resources, and the desire to explore.  The events in “An Exchange of Two Flowers,�� are actually tied up in the need, and the desire for three plant-based resources.  In the novella, I’m focused on two men �� Lin Zexu, and Charles Elliot and two plants ��  tea and opium.  But there was a third plant tied into the story.  Cotton.

The British had planned to be able to pay for the tea they...

As many of you know, new privacy rules have gone into place across the EU.  These cover data collection and transparancy for all kinds of websites, including this one.  I/We are working on crafting new policy to comply with the new rules, and it will be posted shortly.

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I’m so excited to be a part of !  My serial novella “An Exchange of Two Flowers�� will debut on June 21.  But in the meantime, here’s a first look at this story of two men, and two cultures caught in a struggle that will reshape far more than their two worlds�� PART ONE �� THE OPENING SALVO

March 9, 1839
The Foreigners Factories
Canton, Guangdong Province, China

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“Superintendant!�� Emile Johnston burst into Elliot’s dim office. “You’re needed!��

Charles Ellio...

During the Age of Empire, a particular sub-genre of thriller/horror stories emerged in English letters.  It involved English travellers finding out that the natives of whatever country they were tramping through might not actually like them.

This sub-genre includes “The Corsican Sisters,�� by Violet Hunt.

The sisters in question are two beautiful peasant girls whisked away from their humble existence by an English family determined to give the girls a glorious season in London.  They are then...

Who?

Don’t worry, I’d never heard of her before either, and I have no idea why not.

I started my dive into THE OMNIBUS OF CRIME in the back, in the section labeled: MACROCOSMOS (Stories of the Human and Inhuman) pt. 2: Tales of Blood and Cruelty.  Why?  I’m not sure, except it sounded good.  And of the six stories there, I decided to start with “The Corsican Sisters,�� by Violet Hunt.

Who?

Well.  Let me tell you.

First of all �� this is Violet Hunt here.

Now, that’s an interesting face.  She’s...