Anybody like a good pirate story? Yeah, me too. That’s how I ended up writing “Shalimar.” Well, sort of… Maybe you remember your granny wearing Shalimar, the perfume: sweet, musky, very la-di-da. That’s not the what I’m talking about here. My Shalimar exists in the air, a fantastical city inhabited by, well, I’m rushing ahead. […]
Shalimar! (pirates, not angels, but still…) Read More »
Have you ever had a place you just can’t get out of your head? For me that’s Cape May, a shore town I’ve been kind of obsessed with for the last, eh, 25 years or so. The town figures in so much of my writing, it’s a character of its own. Like in my middle
The supernatural isn’t exactly new. Ghost hunting is in, vampires are out, and even if your pets don’t actually answer you when you talk to them, you secretly suspect that one day they might. Culturally, we love mysterious, inexplicable stuff. Always have, always will. (Especially the talking animal bit. Animals have been chatting it up
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