by SMThornton | May 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Happy Mother’s Day! In celebration, I have for your reading pleasure an excerpt of The Secret History. Let’s just say Theodora and her mom have a rather complicated relationship. The silence expanded around us. “You didn’t come all this way, with a...
by SMThornton | May 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’ve sent a few letters to my senators in recent months, so when a letter from Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski landed in mailbox, I expected a run-of-the-mill form letter. Instead, she was writing about The Secret History! I’m not sure who told her...
by SMThornton | Jan 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
A woman should never learn to sew, and if she can she should never admit to it. –Katherine Clifton, The English Patient I despise sewing. And in the midst of editing DAUGHTER OF THE GODS, I realized something else. All my female protagonists...
by SMThornton | Jan 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
I just returned from a terribly relaxing week on Kauai where I did a lot of sitting in the sun and not much else. (Although in case my editor or agent are reading, I did a ton of editing on the planes!) As my 2012-Year-In-Review post isn’t quite ready (blame the...
by SMThornton | Nov 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve recently been reading a number of works by Voltaire (Candide is absolutely hilarious if you’re in the mood for an Enlightenment era soap opera) and really wish the famous philosophe was still alive so I could invite him to dinner. So that got me...
