
A Brand New Novel
Josephine Baker, the early-20th-century African-American dancer, comic, and singer–hugely famous in Paris. Did you know that she was also a spy for the French Resistance during WWII?

Josephine Baker, the early-20th-century African-American dancer, comic, and singer–hugely famous in Paris. Did you know that she was also a spy for the French Resistance during WWII?
Disappearing trans people from public view It would have been hard not to notice the bag filling with urine on the seat beside my non-binary transgender visitor—a necessary accessory, they said, since fear of using the men’s restroom had destroyed their bladder. “I’m just grateful that the pain is gone,” they said. “And that I didn’t get bladder …
I’ve wanted for YEARS to do this. I loved the original version of THE SHARP HOOK OF LOVE, my novel of the famed Medieval star-crossed lovers Héloïse and Abélard. My editor? Not so much. I’d chosen to tell the story from the point of view of Héloïse, the young student seduced by Pierre Abèlard, her …