Why Spilt Wine?
I've been asked about the inspiration behind my romantic thriller, Spilt Wine, so allow me to tell you a little story about its inception. In the spring of 2015, I was living aboard Zonder Zorg in the Burgundy region of France, waiting for the flooding on the Saône to ease so I could head northward. I had just published my fourth book on boating in two years, and I wanted a change. To occupy my time, I began building a wooden model of a skûtsje from a forty-year-old kit I had
The Origin of Posted As Missing
In the spring of 2015, having just completed the first draft of my historical/thriller novel, Spilt Wine, I headed skütsje Zonder Zorg northward up the rivers and canals from the Burgundy. I was too close yet to the story to begin rewriting and editing it, but I was still in a creative mood. I looked for inspiration for another story, and as I followed the Meuse, I paused in Verdun to work on the idea of a story set in World War One. Verdun was the site of the largest and lon
