18 October 2022

Château Gaillard Amboise is a dream. I took one look in 2019 and knew it would become the quiet refuge at Amboise for the Sibylline. Woman On The Wall is centered around it. I took so many elements from it for the story. You can see some of them in these video readings from the…

17 October 2022

Creating community these last few days in Amboise has been absolutely soul filling. From meeting with Mark and Pamela to touring places I fell in love with long ago, the moments have transformed France and the Loire Valley. It shifted from a place that I fell in love with and wrote into a novel into…

16 October 2022

I’m not exactly shy about making friends while traveling or turning social media acquaintances into real-life friends. So, when I spotted a Facebook post from Mark Playle about a new book on the women of Amboise that his wife and fellow former journalist Pamela Shields wrote, I didn’t hesitate. This trip is all about reconnection…

23 February 2022

So, there I was with Aesmeh de la Rose showing me around Amboise, France. Now that she’d offered to introduce me to the crew, I had to forgive her for so unabashedly revealing her death to me without my consent. Apparently, when you are a novelist who’s come to tell their stories, those who’ve waited all of those centuries for you to get it together already know your storyline.