Point of Sighs was the last book that Lisa and I were able to talk about before her illness meant putting aside creative work. We knew we wanted to look at Astreiant’s tea trade, and at the ways that archaic, outdated beliefs persist and frequently turn out to have some basis in fact, however distorted….

Lisa and I started plotting Fairs’ Point before she got sick, and part of the fun for Lisa was the chance to indulge in some inside jokes about one of her great interests, thoroughbred racing. She wasn’t much of a gambler (we couldn’t afford it, for one thing), but she was passionately interested in the…

In the acknowledgements to Point of Dreams, we listed a man named Frank Mohler, then a professor at Appalachian State University, “whose presentation on the development of scenic spectacle at the 1999 Southeastern Theatre Conference in Greensboro, North Carolina, gave us entirely too many ideas.” We only knew Professor Mohler through that talk, and I…

The new Queen of Swords Press edition of Point of Knives, the novella that comes between Point of Hopes and Point of Dreams, comes out August 29. It’s the first Points book I wrote after Lisa’s death, and the first one that we hadn’t discussed before her death, so it remains a bittersweet project for…

It’s pretty typical of 2023 that I should be writing my usual year-end review several days later than planned. It was a year of great highs and horrible lows: I went in with friends on a shared property that will give me a house of my own plus a separate studio/office — and then saw…