Welcome! Enter into the large whitewashed house of a prosperous Moorish family in thirteenth-century Spain, and enjoy a feast for the senses. Take off your shoes at the door and wash your hands with rosewater from the ceramic basin and ewer set. Sit at the low round table covered with… Read More »In a Moorish Home at Mealtime by Lisa J. Yarde
Readers often comment that my stories immerse them fully in the fictional world I’ve created. Achieving that “You Are Here” feeling is a challenge for most authors. Those who write historical fiction wish they had a time machine, a way to experience what the past was like. I write crime… Read More »My Time Machine, by Suzanne Adair
The question has occurred often and my natural response is to answer, “Why not?” Spain is the predominant setting for half of the books I have written. Inspiration derives from the richness of its history and culture, and the influence of different religions on the architecture and food. Spain is… Read More »Why Spain? by Lisa Yarde
Although the idea of writing a 1920s rum-running novel had occasionally tempted me, what made it begin to take shape was a merry-go-round … and a chance meeting with an old man on a beach. Don’t picture sweeping stretches of sand with acres of bikini-clad bodies. This was a beach… Read More »Where They Hid the Booze, by M. Ruth Myers
On the cover of my new book The Crimson Bed is a beautiful picture by John William Waterhouse. (1849-1917) He was not a part of the original Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which had disbanded as a group by the time Waterhouse was a young man. However, like many other artists who came… Read More »Where did the Skull Go? by Loretta Proctor