Release Day for Of Sword and Shadow

Of Sword and Shadow officially releases today! I’m thrilled to share this medieval adventure with you. Early readers have loved … More

A Personal Connection to WWI

When I started work on The Spider and the Sparrow, I began a ton of research about World War One. … More

I had a pleasant surprise while researching my latest novel, The Spider and the Sparrow. It turns out that a … More

100 years ago today, a sickly young man with a mission wandered the streets of Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princip, a young … More

If you look hard enough, you can always find an anniversary for an interesting historical event, but 2014 seems to … More

Seventy years ago today, American, British, and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France in the largest amphibious invasion … More

This blog post will take you through the steps of encoding a message using double transposition, just like British and … More

The title for my third novel was finalized last month: Deadly Alliance. I like it. A lot. No, it wasn’t one of … More

This past summer I read a nonfiction book about several British agents who went into France during WWII as part … More

This blog post revolves around two very different subjects that have come up for me this month. Their connection: the name … More

Last year I posted some pictures my sister took of the WWII memorial in Washington DC. Now that another anniversary … More

Memorial Day I know it’s not Memorial Day yet, but the weekend is about to start, and I expect most … More

A friend of mine asked me about the name of one of my characters, Sherlock. He’s in Sworn Enemy, a … More

I recently read an article about the first naval battle of Narvik, which took place in April 1940 between British … More

Seventy years ago today, on February 2, 1943, the last German troops in Stalingrad surrendered. The fight for Stalingrad was … More

I didn’t have a map for my first novel, Espionage. Most of the novel took place in Calais, France, so … More

Last weekend a good friend went to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for their Remembrance Day activities. She posted these pictures on facebook, … More

I’m having this post at 11 in the morning, French time (at least according to the time zone chart I … More

In 1927, the government of Great Britain was looking for a reason to break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet … More

One thing about writing historical fiction—you have to do a lot of research. Good thing I like learning new things. … More