When I was a kid, my favorite TV show was “The Wild Wild West” with Robert Conrad and Ross Martin. I loved the way Artemus Gordon always had some cool invention to help James West get out of a jam. They even had their own train car that they traveled in. I can’t think of…

In order to do research for The Butterfly Cage, Joe and I took a trip to Wyoming. This was in the middle of a typical hellishly hot Florida summer so it was a revelation to wake up in the morning in a small Wyoming town and have to put on a sweater! Sheer bliss. We flew…