It’s been ages since I’ve posted anything here but life has been so busy!  Here is a short piece I wrote for my publisher’s Website.  It’s a feminist take on aprons!
 

 
 
 
 
Though I set my first novel in the fashion world, my interest in couture is largely metaphorical.  I would be hard pressed to distinguish a […]

It took me a minute or two to realize the woman who had just entered Sue Dumond’s gracious living room in Melun was Fay Weldon.  In any case, it hardly shows on the face, this writer thing.  Authors are ordinary people with a perhaps less than ordinary compulsion to flex their imaginations and create, mind […]

In Defense of Insomnia
It happens in the depths of night, in bed; it is a private thing. When daylight bulges behind the curtains and wakes you, your head aches, your thoughts are desperate, but at least you will not be alone fighting your dragon for the next fifteen hours. It is odd, perhaps even presumptuous […]

A funny thing: the communist newspaper Humanité just published the first page of my novel Patsy Boone  in their “Bonne feuille” section on August 4th:  www.humanite.fr/2008-08-04_Cultures_Patsy-Boone
I’m quite pleased but also surprised they didn’t take issue with Miss Patsy who lives off the fat of mutual funds!