Carol M. Cram writes about women in the arts in her three award-winning novels of historical fiction, The Towers of Tuscany (Lake Union Publishing, 2014), A Woman of Note (Lake Union Publishing, 2015) and The Muse of Fire (Kindle Press & New Arcadia Publishing, 2018) and matches her travel-inspired vignettes with pastel drawings created by her husband, Canadian artist Gregg Simpson, in Pastel & Pen: Travels in Europe (New Arcadia Publishing, 2018). She lives with her husband, painter Gregg Simpson, on beautiful Bowen Island near Vancouver, BC, where she also teaches Nia, a holistic dance/fitness practice, and runs two websites: Art In Fiction (www.artinfiction.com) and Artsy Traveler (www.artsytraveler.com).
