Get the short story Forbidden here.

Check out this excerpt from An Historical Holiday Duet!

Chapter two of Toast of Tokyo

Rainy Season in Tokyo!

Things are done differently in Japan.

Read an excerpt from Toast of Tokyo

My short story Sweets and Spirits Ball from the Eve of Love anthology

New covers and upcoming release

View of Atami from our room at a ryokan, a traditional Japanese inn. We’re wearing the ryokan’s cotton kimonos called yukatas. After spending the day on the beach, we took a hot springs bath at the ryokan and changed into the yukatas for dinner. Most ryokans provide dinner and breakfast. Atami is famous for seafood, and we ate a lot of it. Even grilled fish for breakfast😯

Greetings from cherry blossom season in Tokyo 🌸🌸🌸

It’s been a while since I sent out a newsletter. I mean to send one every month, but this year got off to a rocky start, culminating in an emotionally exhausting, crazy-busy March.

Review from Frank Parker, author and historian

Happy New Year from Tokyo! I hope 2022 brings you bountiful joy, robust health, sizzling romances, and other good reading.

Talk of Tokyo, first chapter

Read an excerpt from the first few pages of Scandals of Tokyo

How did I get to thirteen years?

December 1997-June 2002: I arrived in Japan in December 1997 to work for Aeon English conversation schools. It hadn’t been my dream to work in Japan, necessarily…