Generally, I don’t read that much fiction as I usually stick to history. You have a gift for writing with a real talent for cross-cultural complexities as they play out in personal relationships. I particularly liked the genre….both the time frame (interesting period/span of world history) and the choice of the Eastern Caribbean, something of […]
Dealing with adult and controversial themes, Daughters of the Dance is a beautiful, moving saga of three generations of strong women immersed in the art of the dance and in their profound relationships with high-powered men driven by oil, wealth, war, trade, religious beliefs, nature, female submissiveness, and sexual boundaries. It is a story of […]
For an author to seek the review of a web site that offers an independent review of her novel is risky business but welcomed. Following are two reviews: Following is the official OnlineBookClub review of Daughters of the Dance that received four out of four stars! (reprinted) “Hardly had I come across a book that combined […]
“I bought the book. But I want to buy another. I like the idea that I can order it as a gift to you and then you will sign it and sent it to me! You are very talented!!!! You had to do quite a bit of research for this book. No wonder it took […]
“The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it […]
