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I’m a reader and a writer, a fan of fantasy (Kay, McClellan, McKiernan), historical mystery (Barron, C.S. Harris, Sherry Thomas, Darcie Wilde), and 19th century writers like Austen, Dumas, Scott, and Ainsworth. I also love indie rock and baroque music.

The cover of "The King's Cavalier," showing a mounted soldier and a woman in clothing typical of the 1500s.
The cover of "Hell's Half Acre," showing a street in a western town with a sheriff in the foreground, along the spine, holding a gun.
The cover of "Slightly Wicked," which is large red type over a black background.
A photo of text from the novel, a descriptive passage making a hunting lodge sound magical and dangerous. “A strange, almost eerie silence brooded over it…”
The title page of the play "The Shoemaker's Holiday," with black and white line art full of curlicues and angels.
The cover of Tom Lake, showing grass and a hedge in green with daisies sprinkled about.
Cover of "Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas," showing a woman's silhouette against a red background, with a grayish doily pattern worked into the red.
The cover of "A Conspiracy of Violence," showing a parchment-colored map or drawing of London.
The frontispiece of the novel "The Merchant of Berlin," showing an 18th century German man in long coat and wig standing at his desk, hand on the back of an expensive chair
The cover of "Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead," showing Indy in the foreground with his whip in one hand and a torch the other, a plane behind him, and zombies chasing.
The cover of Remember Me, with the FMC in the foreground, turned away, in a summer dress, with the MMC in a rowboat in the background.
The cover of the play "Hippolytus," showing an armored Greek warrior and a curly-haired Greek woman, all in yellow and orange, on a black background.
The cover of The Executioner #58, showing Mack Bolan on a flatbed train car, firing at an unseen men, with the orange-yellow sky of the Congo in the background.
The cover of "The Prince," showing an empty suit of armor in front of a page of faint writing, gray on black.
An image of the author, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, from about 1850. Wavy hair, sideburns, dressed in black.
The cover of the book "The Collapsium," showing a man in a suit in the foreground, with starships and stations filling the sky, all done in shades of purple.
The cover of the play King Richard III is mostly blue with a simple line drawing of Sheakespeare's head in yellow and orange.
The cover of Dungeon Crawler Carl, with giant yellow letters on a black background. A guy in boxers and a cat are running in a small jaggedy inset.
The cover of "The Serpent's Tale," showing a table covered with strange things, like a ratty book, part of a skull, a jug, an open chest, and other unclear objects.
The cover of Remember Love, showing a woman in a red Regency-style dress in the foreground, turned to watch a man on horse in the middle distance. Behind him is a manor house.
The cover of "Word on the Street," showing a cityscape littered with signs.
The cover of Legends and Lattes, showing an orc and a succubus working in a coffee shop.
One cover for Rookwood, by William Harrison Ainsworth, showing a castle on a hill, with a rushing river and trees in the foreground.
The cover of the Penguin edition of Dante's Inferno, with the William Blake image of a man in flames.
The cover of Eco's Prague Cemetery, with the silhouette of a wolf over a red background.
The title page from an old edition of The Maid's Tragedy, with the list of characters.
The cover of The Conqueror, showing a medieval man in a cloak close behind a woman in pink with braided blond hair. There is a hint of rocky hills and horses behind them, indistinctly.
The cover of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novel, Night School. It's yellow text on a blue background, the author's name on a red banner.
The cover of A Desolation Called Peace, showing a robed figure, back to us, staring through a giant window at a multi-ringed space ship hanging in clouds of debris--or those are tiny attacking ships, maybe.
The cover of Slightly Married, by Mary Balogh. All golden text on a red background, except for a cupid worked into the middle.
The cover of the novel A Play of Treachery, showing colorful characters performing a masque in the street, with a medieval cityscape around them.
The cover of The Executioner #54, showing Mack Bolan with a gun in one hand, helping an injured woman with the other, and mountain slopes in the background.
The cover of a book of poetry by Li Shangyin, with just text on a peach-colored front cover
A stack of mostly older hardcover books.
The cover of the book shows Doc Savage holding his throat while blue lightning flashes in the background.
The cover of Red City, showing a winged lion in black on a red background, with the LA skyline at the bottom.
The cover of one edition of Le Cid, showing two Spanish noblemen in ruffs and hose, drawn in line art.
The cover of the book "Everything is Tubercolosis," with a zoomed-in red drop in the center showing bacteria in blood.
The cover of Sand's "Miller of Angibault," showing a rustic farm scene with a woman in the middle, facing away, her floppy hat prominent in the center.
The cover of the novel "Who Will Remember," with the title and author printed over an old church bell tower shown from far below, dark skies behind.
The cover of Manifold Space, showing something like a spacelab against a black background, with shimmering tendrils of light at the top and bottom.
The cover of "West of Dodge," with a painting of cowboys on horses headed away and down a scrub-covered hill, toward a distant ranch.
The cover of "One Night for Love,"with letters on a mostly white background. A single locket on a chain is the only image.
Blue sky and white clouds behind mesquite and ironwood trees.
The cover of one version of Timon of Athens, with an inset showing a peasant sitting with a book on the ground.
The cover of Jane and the Canterbury Tale, showing an inkwell and a quill pen in closeup on a desk.
Copies of books by Dumas, Kipling, Agatha Christie, Robert Louis Stevenson, and William Johnstone.
An image of the book "The Ivory Mischief," a hardcover that is all over red except for the title and design on the spine.
The cover of Dan Brown's "Inferno," showing some kind of a map with a medallion of Dante's face in the center, and a torn section of the map revealing a photo of the Duomo in Florence--maybe sunrise? The sky is orange.
Cover of the novel "Mistress of the Art of Death," showing a painting of lights and darks with a person clasping their hands over and leaning their head on a skull.
The cover of "The Bible Says so: What we get right (and wrong) about Scripture's most controversial issues," with white and yellow text over blue.
The cover of one edition of Homer's Iliad, showing several gods moving through mist. Maybe that's Achilles in the middle with a sword and shield.
The cover of the novel "Good Spirits," showing a man and woman kissing with snowflakes and poinsettias floating around them.