Love is worth the risk
Vaccines are on my mind—I just got my second dose of Moderna two days ago. I didn’t set out to write about vaccination programs when I first conceived The Price of Glory three years ago. Even when my hakima (female healer) took shape and I realized that vaccination was a vital part of the work […]
As the psalmist says, joy cometh in the morning. The sun is shining, the temperature is rising at last, my Lent roses have bloomed, the daffodils look ready, my weight watchers program is working (good bye COVID weight), I’m scheduled for COVID shot #2 today, and I have The Price of Glory back from the […]
Highlighting facts behind historical fiction with Gifford MacShane on family history, the potato famine, and her books. The Donovan Family Saga, and in particular, THE WINDS OF MORNING, was inspired by my father’s family, who emigrated from Ireland in the late 1800s and early 1900s. As I looked over a genealogy my niece created, I […]
Last week I shared the opening scene to The Value of Pity from my “difficult” heroine’s point of view. I deliberately plunged readers into it without explanation to see how my readers might react to her. This week I’m giving you the scene that precedes it, from the hero’s POV. Is this young lord up […]
…That Napoleon took two popes prisoner? The first died in French captivity in 1799. The second, Pius VII went voluntarily to Paris in 1804, part of his policy of cooperation aimed at restoring freedoms to Catholics in France who had been persecuted during the Revolution. Pius had been invited (it is unclear how much choice […]