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- Does This Woman Look Like A Spy?
- Father-Daughter Fiction
- Writing a Novel? The Details Count…
- The Queen Honors an Author
- What Tartan Should I Wear?
- Fly-on the-Wall Novel Research
- A Novelist in Edinburgh Then and Now
- Adding to the Novelist’s “Idea Bank”
- Fascinating Fascinators: The View From the UK
- Creating Characters Before The Novel Is Written
- Why I Love Edinburgh
- Creating Fictional Characters – The Magic of “Who?”
- Scotland by the Yard
- Are Ancestors “Fair Game” in Fiction?
- Researching a Novel–Honestly!
- My Mother, The Typist
- Venice, Publishing, and My Paper Lion
- Dateline: 200 Years Later…
- Mother’s Day Kudos to “Storytelling Moms”
- Creating Characters: Their Actions Drive the Plot!
- Creating Characters: What Do They Want?
- Tea Addiction in Fiction
- Book Bargain Bulletin from Ciji!
- Scotland on my Mind: Then & Now
- If These Castle Walls Could Talk…
- Dogs as Characters in Fiction
- Spring Comes to Cornwall
- To Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day: Bake a Scone!
- Researching a Novel The Old Fashioned Way
- How to Build a Cottage in Your Mind
- That’s What Friends Are For…
- Rescue Dogs and the Making of a Subplot
- Downton Abbey in Modern Dress?
- Making “The Lists”
- Now Available on iTunes
- “YOU’RE A FINALIST!”
- Natchez Revisited on the Veranda…
- Culinary Research in the Big Easy
- Ciji’s Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
- New Year’s Eve in New Orleans!
- Visiting Old Haunts in the Big Easy
- Now, THIS is a Book Launch Party!
- Hangin’ with a “Rock Star” Author
- The Enduring Fairmont Hotel
- A Second Act for a 17th c. Woman Playwright
- Writers’ Conferences 101
- Booksellers, Historical Fiction, & “Hand-Selling”
- Word Wenches
- Wicked Company Should be a Movie!
- Can Readers Love a “Flawed” Hero?
- Outfoxing “That Little Toad!” Edward Capell, Censor
- A “Petticoat Playwright” Wannabe
- A Shakespeare Festival in 1769
- 18th c. Actor-Manager David Garrick–A Feminist?
- A Tale of Two Covers
- Why a Race To Splendor?
- A new novel – A Race to Splendor
- How I Became a “Scot-O-Maniac”
- The Idea for a Novel Comes From…
- My Favorite Authors
- “Enchanted Cornwall”
- A new release of Cottage by the Sea
- Revisting Jane Maxwell
- My Connection to Island of the Swans
- Duchess Regalia!
- Ciji Living the Writer’s Life