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The dramatic and traumatic events and colourful, larger than life characters I encountered during my years on this Caribbean island…

I wanted to write about the external forces that shape our lives and how we deal with them and ultimately…

I have a small, select circle of “beta” readers with whom I share my work-in-progress. These are friends who bring…

Most of the characters are real people from history. Although dialogue and motivation are made up and reflect the times…

The biggest struggle I had was with Magda’s voice. She spoke to me in a snarky, modern tongue, and I…

Since I love art, I wanted to create something related to it and began thinking about an art mystery involving…

I firmly believe that the experience of carrying my first baby, loving her fiercely and having no choice but to…

When deciding which smidges of myself would go into those not-so-nice characters, I was reminded of the famous psychologist Carl…

I try to write in a way that is accessible to readers with ordinary vocabularies, and I try to create…

My own uncertainty, along with imagining what my grandmother may have felt about never knowing her background, was a big…