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The first cover I designed for Daevil’s Bells was not for Daevil’s Bells. It was for a book called Secrets of Dom Arjona, which is what I thought I was writing in 2017. The cover I built matched the book I thought I had: an erotic gothic thriller about a…
Continue readingThe weekend before Halloween, Marzio came over my house and we started tinkering with a silly online program that generates plots. I said to Marzio that I was going to base my next big novel on this Emily Brönte insta-book plot generator that spit out a story about an old…
Continue readingTwo years ago, around this time, I found myself cloistered in a Barcelona hotel room for hours at a time. While my husband pushed the latest and greatest of his company’s achievements at a technology convention, I slogged away the hours doing design for my agency back in New York….
Continue readingMy Graphic Design Background I became interested in CGI and 3D modeling in college. That was back in the day of betacams and Avid editing systems when 9Gig hard drives were serious business. I spent the days in dark rooms splicing quarter track, 16mm and occasionally, time behind hulking monitors working…
Continue readingI have desired for some time to update you readers with news of the novel Marzio and I are crafting, but it seems that every time I have a spare moment it goes to some other, fleeting fancy. I am exceedingly drawn to distraction as a matter of course, especially such…
Continue readingThe epic fantasy of Khajj, the heroine of The Books of Lirios Trilogy, began many years ago in the heyday of our gaming days. Back in those days Narcisse and I had no intention of writing novels. We wrote because we loved it, immersing ourselves in Khajj’s world with the…
Continue readingWe hired an amazing artist! In anticipation of the completion of this new book, I’ve commissioned UK fantasy artist, caricaturist and portrait painter Emily Hare (formerly Manon Delacroix) to do the cover. I fell in love with her work as soon as I saw it. Once I told her of the concept she jumped…
Continue readingIt’s been a while hasn’t it? Everyone keeps wondering what we’re up to and I’m finally going to enlighten you: We’ve been writing a new book! Marzio and I have been working on the Khajj trilogy (The Books of Lirios) for two years now. It’s a sprawling fantasy world with…
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