Book four in the Oliver & Jack series is moving along nicely. Most recently, Bookfly Design and I finalized the cover, which I’m including for you now, so you can see what I see, which is Bookfly’s amazing attention to detail, and a terrific hand at bringing the tone and feel of the book to […]
Edits and Read-Through for Out In The World
Books don’t write themselves, as anybody could tell you. While writing a book, I look more like this: Than this: But what might not get as often a mention is that books also do not edit themselves. For that you need, at the very least, a beta-reader (mine is the unrivaled talent of Wendy Rathbone), […]
Other Locations in Fagin’s Boy
The setting for the story in Fagin’s Boy is pretty tight, moving from Chelsea in the east to the Three Cripples in the West, with Soho and the haberdashery in between, so I thought I’d include the rest of the locations I picked out. Mr. Brownlow’s townhouse, I determined, was located in close proximity to […]
Between the Haberdashery and The Three Cripples
I’m all about location, location, location, and like to get as many details as close to realism as I possibly can. These locations in Fagin’s Boy can’t, of course, be real, since even Dickens’ London was an imaginary place, but I can get close. And besides, it’s fun to do the research! This post is about […]
At Lodgings In Lyme Chronology
Keeping track of the chronology of a story is important to me, so here is the chronology of Oliver & Jack: At Lodgings In Lyme. Earlier, Wendy Rathbone and I were talking via email about our current projects; though the characters and settings are very different, the topics and tropes we are working with are very similar, […]
Fagin’s Boy Chronology
When I write my books, I’m a stickler for chronology, the timeline of the events in the book. Part of this is due to my sense of OCD, the other part has to do with Victorian life. I mean, if it’s Sunday, are the shops open? Maybe yes, maybe no. At any rate, for any […]