Victoria Helen Stone

Solitude in Big Sur: Research for Half Past

Half Past takes place in two main locations: a small town in rural Iowa and the coast of Big Sur. I didn’t have to do any research on the first location. My family is from a tiny farming community in southern Minnesota. I only had to look up a couple of details to get...

Cutting a New Path

So after writing nearly thirty romances, why did I want to write something different? Well, I didn’t. I never even thought about it. But then a former editor asked me to write something for her. Something that wasn’t romance, because she wasn’t publishing...