Is the Cassandra Curse Still Operative? You Decide . . .

Cassandra by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys. Before 1904. Source: The Studio (October 1904): 13. University of Toronto and Internet Archive

Cassandra by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys. Before 1904. Source: The Studio (October 1904): 13. University of Toronto and Internet Archive

Thinking about curses, modern and ancient.

It turned out to be a motivating week to return to the Cassandra Curse as I worked on my next novel, returning to the narrator who lives that curse. Named Cassandra Patton Conover, she avoids her first name, calling herself Patton. It doesn’t really work to avoid her first name because she has a job where no one seems to listen anyway. Read more . . .