The wind pressed russet grass toward thickets of Osage Orange and elderberry under a high afternoon sun that winked over the river to a granite ridge capped by trees uniform as a barber’s cut. It was autumn in Oklahoma. I’d returned to the northeast part of the state, the setting that inspired the fictional location…
We’ve always been captivated by the storytelling potential of family dynamics—few things breed tension like suspicion and resentment bound by blood. In our latest novel, Trust Issues, adult siblings Hazel and Kagan Bailey are drawn together by the suspicious death of their estranged mother, Janice. Grappling with grief and lingering resentment, they suspect their stepfather,…
I’m drawn to wild landscapes. I love to travel to them. I love to write about them. In fact, I even like to write from them (I work from a beach hut on the south coast of England, using the isolation and wild weather to help craft my stories). When I’m approaching a novel, place…
