Author’s Blog

Allhallowtide

Highlighting Historical Romance with Charlotte Brothers and the facts about Allhallowtide behind A Bird in the Hand. Thank you, Caroline and readers, for this opportunity to wave my hand in the air and share a little bit about A Year in Cherrybrook. I am a big fan of Caroline’s well-crafted stories, and the Bluestocking Belles […]

The Rain Doth Fall

I spent last week alternately languishing after being vaccinated and editing. No progress at all, alas. Yesterday I was priming the pump–rereading, rewriting, and inching forward in The Value of Pity, and also reading more about women on the autism spectrum, like Athena. This Wednesday I offer a crumb from The Tender Flood, my story […]

Not my kid!

…that opposition to vaccination is nothing new. There has been fierce resistance to all forms since the process was discovered, with much debate about the dangers and benefits—as this cartoon from 1802 shows. I ran across a particularly interesting incident in the early 19th century Massachusetts in which town leaders had twelve boys vaccinated and […]

A Three Coffee Monday

After a super productive weekend I’m facing a three coffee Monday. First of all, I’m pleased to say, I finished the edits for The Price of Glory. When I send books to the editor I always think they are perfect, but NO. Every one of them seems to have a lazy word, a crutch word […]

War and the People of the Hudson Valley

Highlighting Historical Fiction with Camille Regholec The spark for this book series came after I moved to the small, sleepy hamlet of Summitville in the Catskill Hudson area of New York. I began attending a little country church, most parishioners were elderly, long time members of the community. This church had a strange custom. One […]