I found this passage while rereading Hardin Craig’s The Complete Works of Shakespeare and found the words immensely agreeable to anyone...

Sometimes as a writer the creative juices usually flowing onto the page are dammed by the realities of the world around you. Ambition and...

Summary What is it like to live every day without your child? This is my reality and my story. This episode is also available as a blog...

Stealing the Holy Grail by S. M. Perlow, a book I requested from Netgalley, was a heart-pounding gallop through another rendition of the...

The Girl from the Mountains by Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger is a haunting reminder how things can progress from idyllic to horrific in the...

FIVE STARS!!!!!!!!!! The Girl Who Escaped Auschwitz is another poignant and captivating story from the brilliant mind of Ellie Midwood....

A Comfortable Alliance by Catherine Kullman is a beautifully written historical novel set right after the Napoleonic Wars. From the...

In connection with The Historical Fiction Club’s Author Takeover, I am happy to welcome to my blog and podcast today, Drema Drudge,...

Welcome to The Hist Fic Chickie! Today I am featuring the artistic and dignified stylings of Christian Historical Fiction author, Rebecca...

Well, it is official. It has taken a while but Sir Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance have convinced me after all these years. Not that my...

So, this is a blog post I’ve been wanting to write for some time (and a podcast episode) and now that I am back on a roll with my...

Summary So many people have opinions about writing historical fiction. Another blogger shared her view which swept across the historical...

First and foremost, I must say I am privileged to know many of these phenomenal historical fiction authors and have shared and re-shared...

Sometimes as a writer the creative juices usually flowing onto the page are dammed by the realities of the world around you. Ambition and...

RELEASE DATE: November 18, 2020 Is it possible to give a book ten stars? If so, this is one!! Ellie Midwood is an expert wordsmith and...

I am at a loss for words, and here I sit trying to write a post for this blog. I mean, I’m not really at a loss for words but you know...

While this doesn’t pertain to historical fiction, it did happen to a historical fiction author – me, and I just had to share. With this...

She’s been fascinating people since 1948, when Long Island historian Morton Pennypacker first wrote about her. The problem is, she might...

The path of writing is pocked with rabbit holes. I can remember each and every time the moment before the first fall, the peeking into...

Galileo said, “Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth...