When we first considered writing a series of World War II-era mystery novels set in New York City, we wondered if even the largest city on America’s homefront experienced enough action, conflict, suspense and terror to make for compelling wartime stories. When it comes to WWII narrative, the great European… Read More »New York in Wartime by Joanne Dobson and Beverle Graves Myers
[box] With a grating clash, the earth beneath them split, sucking them into a fissure. Chrysaleon, flailing as he fell, caught a protruding root in his right hand and Aridela’s wrist in the left. He strained to hold her, groaning beneath shooting agony in his injured arm and thigh as… Read More »Volcanic Eruption of Callisti–The Lost City of Atlantis? by Rebecca Lochlann
Looking over a local library’s event schedule yesterday, I came across the name of an author I hadn’t thought about for years—make that decades. He must be ancient, and if he’s still out there promoting, he’s earned an audience. I might just go and thank him for the memories. As a teenager,… Read More »History for Teenagers-A Dangerous Proposition by Peg Herring
Introduction It was while I was doing research for my first Leonardo da Vinci mystery, THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT, that I stumbled across references to a particular Tarocchi deck dating from the mid-15th century. Known as the Visconti-Sforza Tarot, it was created by Bonifacio Bembo, a skilled painter and miniaturist occasionally in the… Read More »Tarot, Leonardo, and the Renaissance by Diane A.S. Stuckart
In the coming months, many of the members of the Historical Fiction Authors Cooperative are going write about the books that influenced their decisions to write historical fiction. In my own case, I was startled to realize the enormous effect the books I read as a child had had on… Read More »Historical Fiction Books of My Childhood: Here are mine, what were yours?