Braving New Orleans’s Psychic Undertow
on June 12, 2018
I confess. When I began writing the Teen Wytche Saga, my series of Young Adult sweet romances, my research consisted largely of eavesdropping on my daughter and her friends while I drove them to school. But as Brilliant Beautiful Daughter grew up, my novels and my inquiries became more complex. For example, researching SPELL FOR… Read More
Absinthe…the seductive killer sweet of Gilded Age New Orleans
on December 13, 2017
Greetings! During the frosty, dark nights of December, I always crave killer sweets. Sweets like chocolate marshmallow fudge. And glazed gingerbread. And cinnamon-sugared crullers. And as I write the sequel to Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper—which takes place in 1889 New Orleans—I’ve been lusting after that city’s most popular killer sweet: creamy pecan… Read More