I’ve just returned from ten days spent generously tucked into a fascinating group of people from Anchorage/Washington DC/San Francisco/Paris, all of us staying at Chateau de Thauvenay in Sancerre, France.

I was able to make a writing retreat of it, both researching the history of the village and its people for a potential new book, and also finishing off my work in progress (An Unlikely Prospect, August 2025).

With the plot finished, I needed to get up high to see the general shape of things, so I could fix the parts that didn’t connect, adding missing steps. (Above you see the view from my landing, a picture taken by Lynn Tsao.)

Read about what lies beneath HERE.