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The Inquisition Was Not Exclusively Dominican: Franciscans Also Investigated

The Inquisition Was Not Exclusively Dominican: Franciscans Also Investigated

Leave a Comment / May 28, 2026

There are scenes in A Tale of Paris & Paris: Echoes of Troy that unsettle readers who arrive with their assumptions intact. The inquisitors who descend upon Cortona in 1450 are not the black-and-white Dominicans of legend, the Domini canes, the Hounds of God, the scholastic terrors immortalized in every gothic retelling of the medieval […]

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The Cosmological Thread: Souls Finding Each Other Across Lifetimes

The Cosmological Thread: Souls Finding Each Other Across Lifetimes

Leave a Comment / May 28, 2026

There is a thread that runs through everything I write. It does not announce itself. It does not appear in chapter summaries or back-cover copy. But it is there in every novel, in every narrator’s voice, in every reunion between characters who meet for what the plot calls the first time and recognize each other

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The Pen Name and the Alter Ego: Who Is Edmond Thornfield?

The Pen Name and the Alter Ego: Who Is Edmond Thornfield?

1 Comment / May 28, 2026

There is a moment known to every writer who has ever chosen a nom de plume when the invented name becomes more real than the given one. I cannot say when that moment arrived for me. I know only that it has. The name Edmond Thornfield was not assembled at random. Each of its two

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Cortona, 1450 AD | Building the World of A Tale of Paris & Paris: Echoes of Troy

Building the World of A Tale of Paris & Paris: Echoes of Troy | Cortona, 1450 AD

2 Comments / May 27, 2026

In my visits to Cortona, I always enter the citadel at the beginning of Via Nazionale, still known by the Cortonesi as Via di Ruga Piana, as it has been for centuries, the only leveled street in the whole city. The first time I did, the moment I laid my hands upon the remaining stones

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Who Is Artemis in Atalanta of the Wild?

Who Is Artemis in Atalanta of the Wild?

Leave a Comment / May 25, 2026

Of all the gods of the Greek pantheon, Artemis is the one most commonly misread. Popular imagination has settled on her as a figure of cold severity, the virgin huntress, remote and punishing, more comfortable among animals than among people, quick to anger and slow to forgive. There is evidence for this reading in the

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Six Novels That Taught Me About Men

Six Novels That Taught Me About Men

Leave a Comment / May 24, 2026

There is a particular dishonesty that runs through a great deal of fiction written by and about men, a tendency to grant male characters the external architecture of complexity without the internal substance of it. Men in such novels have ambitions, rivalries, codes of honor, and moments of violence, but their inner lives remain largely

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Six Novels That Taught Me About Women

Six Novels That Taught Me About Women

Leave a Comment / May 24, 2026

I have spent a great deal of my writing life inside the minds of women. Atalanta, Elena, Pasiphaë, Costanza, Stella—the women of my novels are not secondary figures, not love interests arranged around a male protagonist. They are the story, or so much of it that the distinction barely holds. People sometimes ask me how

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Why Atalanta?

Why a Novel About Atalanta?

Leave a Comment / May 24, 2026

On Ovid, Myth, and Historical Imagination There is a question every novelist must answer, if only to themselves: why this story, and why now? For me the answer arrived not gradually but all at once, in the final lines of a myth I had known for years without truly seeing. Ovid tells Atalanta‘s story across

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BOOK REVIEW

A Tale of Paris & Paris: Echoes of Troy | Reviewed by Carol Thompson for Readers’ Favorite

Leave a Comment / May 21, 2026

A Tale of Paris & Paris: Echoes of Troy by Edmond Thornfield is an adult historical fantasy set primarily in fifteenth-century Cortona, Italy, a period defined by religious authority, political tension, and unspoken desire. The novel follows the intertwined lives caught between duty and longing, most notably Lorenzo di Ranieri, a Florentine soldier returning to

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