Love is worth the risk
Highlighting Historical Romance with Clare Rhoden and some lovely stories from The Great War Hi, I’m Clare Rhoden and I live in Melbourne Australia. I’m thrilled to be here today to tell you a bit about my First World War novel, The Stars in the Night. I was kidnapped into the era by a love […]
Highlighting Historical Romance with Jan Shelbourne on sources of inspiration. Most authors are asked what inspired them to write their books. It can be a major event, a person, or a tiny incident which sparks our imagination and produces another unique story. My first attempts at writing were full of enthusiasm and scenes in my […]
I generally like to tell people I have a few great passions: faith, history, travel—and family. I use all of them in my books. In the process of writing the Dangerous Books I started with four friends, but I created five families almost by accident: the Wheatlys and the Landrums (A Dangerous Nativity), the Mallets […]
This week I had the joy of a visit from some of my favorite cousins. In addition to food, good conversation, and touring the some of the prime historical sites here in Philadelphia, we had reason to talk about our grandparent’s lives. They brought some boxes of papers left by our late uncle. Some stories […]