Author’s Blog

The Details Matter

Highlighting Historical Romance with Linda Carroll-Bradd and the ways cultural details enhance stories As I plot and write my sweet historical romances, I do my best to include interesting features of one of my protagonist’s cultural background. In the 1800s, America was a true melting pot of peoples from a host of countries. Many of […]

Slaves or Thinkers?

Highlighting Historical Romance with Rue Allen who continues here series on Medieval Women: Slaves to Convention or Independent Thinkers (Part two of three) In the first of my posts [published here on Sept. 5, 2019] about Medieval women and the common mis-conceptions about them, I discussed the holy women of the time, Abbesses, Anchoresses and […]

Two Roads Diverged…

Robert Frost tells us he took the one less traveled by. The nice part about writing is you don’t have to choose one or the other; you can choose both. While nearing the end of The Price of Glory, and networking with dozens of wonderful writers at HRR, I found myself pondering directions. I couldn’t […]

British Amazons

Highlighting Historical Romance with Maria Grace on archery and the British Amazons As the Georgian period drew to a close, an increasing fascination with the medieval past led to a revival of the English archery tradition. (Sounds nothing like what we do today, does it? SCA friends, I’m looking at you!) While most sporting activities […]

Halloween Hopping

Are you ready for Halloween? Is it one of your favorite holidays? Fourteen authors of historical romance plan some fun for Halloween. Hop to all fourteen Facebook pages on Halloween and you could be entered to win fourteen books! There will also be a prize at every stop. Start here: https://www.facebook.com/events/760917117721041/ Costumes Optional Meanwhile I’m […]