Month: April 2013

I mentioned this word last year in my Cold War post, but figured this would be a good opportunity to revisit the topic. Perestroika literally

The occult is strictly defined as “supernatural, mystical, or magical beliefs, practices, or phenomena.” The word comes to us from a Latin word meaning “hidden

I’ve spent several novels, now, naming characters, but book 2 of Red Slaves presented me with a new opportunity: To build fake words in to

One of the fun sub-themes of my Red Slaves series is the escape to the banya to relax and enjoy women-only time between Olga and

For all that I’ve been happily married and deeply in love for more than 15 years, now, this was the first I considered what, specifically,

The Central Asian Republics have held a certain fascination for me since I was a little girl and my dad came back from what we

Last year I had a problem with this letter, and stretched to make JAM fit. This year, Anne’s adventures took her into the Himalayan mountains.

I had originally been going to write about Igor for this installment of the A-Z challenge, but since he ends up being such a pivotal

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I had faced writing book 2 of the Red Slaves series with some trepidation–after all, I’d only had peripheral

Although I had lived in Taiwan for almost a year and a half and spent some time learning at least a beginning level of Mandarin