Writing with Paint: Learning Oils for My Caravaggio Novel ‘A Name in Blood’
To research A Name in Blood, my novel about the mystery of Caravaggio’s death, I traveled to all the places where the great artist lived and worked. I …
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Rescuing Caravaggio from a Bad Rap
He was a raging psycho, an uncontrollably lustful homosexual, and a bit of a bitch. Somehow he also managed to produce some of the most sensitive and …
Researching my Caravaggio novel: Learning to Kill
In the chapel of the Pio Monte della Misericordia, I stood before the great painting now known as Seven Works of Mercy (Caravaggio called it Our Lady …
Inspiration for Mozart
I’m interviewed on the CBS columnist Jeff Glor’s blog about my new novel Mozart’s Last Aria. Here’s how it starts: Jeff Glor: …
Gentleman and thug: researching my new historical novel
One of the great pleasures of novel-writing is the research which, for almost every book, ought to bring the writer to investigate different areas of …