I don’t know how writers worked before the advent of the computer age. It’s not spell check that I’m thinking of—it’s the Internet. The ability to do some research (or at least start it) without leaving your chair never ceases to amaze me.
Sometimes it makes me feel guilty. Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf didn’t need an Internet to create their astounding works of fiction.
But each age uses what tools are available to them, and after spending the last couple of days researching corsairs, women’s after bath splash, and Ingrid Bergman’s parents, I’m pretty grateful.
The three drawings on the Links page are by my friend, Margaux Kent. She drew them for the first edition of my second book, I See No Angels, which consists of three novellas, one for Limbo, one for Purgatory, and one for Hell. Margaux created the cover art, then drew these three pieces (featured in the first edition only) to accompany each novella.
Margaux and her husband Walter have a great business where they create unique objects made from found material. Visit their web site at Peg and Awl.