Love is worth the risk
Highlighting Historical Fiction with Jeanine Englert and The Highlander’s Secret Son Even though my newest book, The Highlander’s Secret Son, takes place in Georgian times in 1743, the clan rivalry between my hero, Brandon Campbell, and heroine, Fiona MacDonald, is sparked by a previous true historical event that occurred generations before them: The Glencoe Massacre […]
An excerpt: I’ve had moonlight on my mind lately. ***** “We’re still weeks from Khartoum, Sekhmet. Bashkim—” Use of the nickname made her lips curl up into a smile. “Neither Bashkim nor Khartoum has anything to do with it. You have your work, your goals.” “And you have yours.” He shifted and tried to cradle […]
…that some people think in pictures? Many folks with Autism Spectrum Disorder do, as eloquently described by Temple Grandin (and brilliantly presented in the movie with her name in the title). Some do not. The variation is wide. Most people with ASD are likely to tell the absolute unvarnished truth in all situations, with no […]
It was a busy weekend here in the urban wilds of eastern Pennsylvania. Bright sunshine alternated with sheets of rain and flooded streets. We planted some small maple trees. They are rescues from previous years’ weeding that survived life in pots long enough to be planted. Brunch with the Belles’ on Saturday got into Why […]
Highlighting the facts behind Historical Fiction with Nancy Thorne and her young adult novel, The Somewhere I See You Again. Generally in this spot we include bits of research behind a novel. Nancy began this work expecting to look at the lives of young people fifty years ago, and things she learned hitchhiking in the […]