Oil and Marble is coming to a paperback near you — summer 2018! For months, people (especially students, schools, art museums, nonprofits, book clubs) have been asking: when is the paperback coming? My answer: I don’t know. That’s the publisher’s … Continue reading Paperback: Coming June 2018
More and more book clubs have been contacting me lately, asking for Book Club discussion questions for Oil and Marble (this is great news! I love book clubs and try to answer questions, join via video or even stop by … Continue reading Book Club Questions
In honor of Leonardo da Vinci’s 565th birthday today (he was born on April 15, 1452), I’m celebrating with 10 of my favorite quotes attributed to the maestro (yes, many of these can be found in my novel, Oil and Marble). … Continue reading Top 10 Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Today, the Slovakian translation of my novel arrived. That’s two translations so far (the first was Spanish), and my publisher says there are more on the way. Oh, if I could’ve showed myself this picture when I was seven… or … Continue reading Scratching Out a Little Girl’s Dream
I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks. It’s not because I haven’t had things to say — we’ve been traveling through Europe, so I have several blogs in my draft queue waiting to be published… I wrote THIS post weeks … Continue reading On Revisiting the Last Supper
Last night, I went to my first international book event for Oil and Marble (Leonardo y Miguel Angel in Spanish) at Libreria Le in Madrid. I was terrified. I’ve done over 100 book events all over the US; I no … Continue reading Fear of a Book Event in Madrid
Today, a new Leonardo da Vinci drawing was discovered in France (see featured image). To honor this very real discovery of very real history, here are 10 shockingly true stories from my historical novel, Oil and Marble: a novel of Leonardo and … Continue reading Shockingly True Things in Oil and Marble
This is a photo of everything my husband and I own (except for a few clothes that we can fit in a couple of suitcases in our car). When I sold my debut novel Oil and Marble: a Novel of Leonardo … Continue reading When I dreamed of being a novelist, this is not what I pictured…
One year ago, my husband and I sold our condo in Los Angeles to go on the road. I’d lived in LA for over 15 years. He’d lived there for 25. But we left it all behind—at least for a while—to … Continue reading 1 Year on the Road: What I’ve Learned… So Far
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. — Paul Cezanne I’ve never had writer’s block, but ever since my debut novel Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo has come out (and … Continue reading 10 Artists Plagued by Self-Doubt: Lessons from the National Gallery of Art
