​​​This is the James Lee House in Victorian Village in Memphis that housed the Memphis Academy of Art. For several years I attended art classes there. It was old, decrepit, sometimes things fell apart--just crashed from the ceiling or wall--and I loved it all. Since then, it has been restored and is now a privately owned Bed and Breakfast. I used this old house as the setting for my short story, An Artful Death. Much of what I describe about the house is what I remember (sorry, there was no real murder there) and the watercolor on the front cover is my work also.

Email: elizabethsmithwrites@gmail.com

Elizabeth Smith

is an artist and writer. For a number of years she worked in advertising then changed careers and taught middle school and high school.

She is the author of nine novels including 

Nobody's Baby, The Gift, and Postmark: Paris.

Her books are all about the magic that happens when two people meet and the things that can keep them apart.