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Romance and Ruin: Tales of Love and History

Loving medieval England as I do and loving to play with time periods, I am honored to share with you, one chapter at a time, ETERNAL BELOVED.   I'll also occasionally share posts about writing historical fiction, and whatever is bugging or exciting me at the time!

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Click below to enjoy the first chapter. 

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Would you cross centuries to be with this  this knight? Bel Lucy would--and did!

ETERNAL BELOVED is set alternately in contemporary Colorado and fourteenth-century Ireland. Bel Lucy, my failed novelist and successful publishing mogul, finds herself  in fourteenth-century Ireland, where she must survive famine, war… and one irritating but dangerously appealing knight.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends justice--except for America's working class. Colorado has some of the most violent labor history in America. Blue-Collar Blues will share my opinions on various strikes, socialism, and my working class roots. 


Click below to read my essay: An America That No Longer Exists.

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My union uncles and my union dad (in the center) following their uncle's funeral. Uncle Vic was a coal miner and IWW radical, as is most of my family.  

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WFM union hall following militia attack that ended the 1903-04 strike. Read about the Colorado Labor Wars in THE GOLDEN PROMISE OF CRIPPLE CREEK. 

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