This is Clive (left) and Emma, also known as The Bookends. We adopted these siblings three years ago, and they are devoted to each other. Doesn't Emma have the face of a literary critic? Clive looks like Max from the children's cartoon Max and Ruby. 

This is me, with an advance copy of HOW TO DECEIVE A DUKE. Nothing is more exciting than getting that first printed copy in the mail from my lovely editor!

A photo taken by my son Griffin, me at my desk on a cold December day (2013)

An advance print copy of ONCE UPON A HIGHLAND AUTUMN (Summer 2014)