This blog is all about my historical novel called Under the Poppy: from research through writing to publication with Small Beer Press in October 2010, to a stage adaptation slated for performance at the Detroit Opera House in early 2011. It’s been a marvelously surprising journey and it’s nowhere near over yet.

Please have a look, take in the art, pull a puppet-string or two, breathe in the earthy scents of the brothel and the chilly high-society salon, where you’ll find passion and play-acting, war and betrayal, seduction and valor and a love that lasts a lifetime . . . . Welcome to the world Under the Poppy.