In my new novel, THE LOST PERFUMES OF PARIS, my main character, Élodie, dreams of becoming a perfumer as successful as her legendary mother.

To gain insight into Élodie’s creative process, naturally I had to take a perfume-making course myself. The first one I went to was with two of my closest girlfriends and we had a delightful morning, trying … Read more »

For all of the historical fiction lovers out there! We had a wonderful time discussing our upcoming books, our love of history, and the writing life. Madeline Martin told us the spine-tingling background to A TIME OF WITCHES, which has been percolating in the back of her mind for 25 years! Katherine Reay shared the intriguing background to her Cold … Read more »