An Arkansas state park called Crater of Diamonds is the only diamond-producing site in the world that is open to the public. A woman sat down in the shade and noticed a 2.93-carat diamond about the size of a pea just laying there. And she gets to keep it!
A visitor certainly has better odds of [...]

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It was in the half-unpacked mess that (Eira Thomas) lost a pair of earrings set with two-carat diamonds from the Diavik mine. She’s pretty sure her dog Melville ate them. (“He likes shiny things,” she says.) – from an article at Portfolio.com
Back in 1994 when she was only 25, beautiful red-haired geologist Eira Thomas led [...]

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My favorite bush plane is being manufactured by Viking Air Ltd., 22 years after the last 19 passenger, two engine workhorse rolled off the production line, according to The rebirth of a Canadian icon (May 15, The Globe and Mail).
Back in the early 80s I flew as a passenger in almost every type of small [...]

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Readers of Diamond Lust expressed the desire to know more about its heroine, Petra Paris. After Petra’s adventure at Ptarmigan Mine, she accepted a short term contract to work out of a field camp in the Mackenzie Mountains west of Yellowknife. Petra made herself available for this interview via satellite phone.
Why did you decide to become [...]

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On April 30 in Columbus, Ohio I participated in my very first book signing event ever. Actually, I signed cover flats supplied by Cerridwen Press, and the purchasers received a confirmation code to download a copy from the Web site.
The first to buy an e-copy of Diamond Lust at the signing had just returned from Emergency [...]

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You could always tell what kind of a person a man thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.
Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
My hubby gave me diamond stud earrings on the occasion of our first Christmas together. The pretty set of .24 carat sparklers came with a couple of extras: a Government [...]

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To announce the release (woo-hoo) of Diamond Lust on Thursday, the  18 of February, I guest-blogged at two sites:
1. The Romance Dish on 19 February, 2010.  Read that post at  www.theromancedish.com
2. Author Hannah Howell’s blog on 22 February, 2010.
Celebrating,
Madelle

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My first full-time job was with the Northwest Territories Department of Public Works and Highways. (There were only two so-called highways in the early 80s, neither paved. You were more likely to encounter a bear than another car.) As a junior project engineer, I supervised various construction projects in many of the Inuit and Dene communities.
Most [...]

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I began my civil engineering career in Yellowknife, the tiny capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories. At that time, 25 years ago, employment at the territorial government and two gold mines sustained the local economy. Late every afternoon my downtown office building shook as they blasted rock deep in the stopes a mile below, in readiness [...]

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