This is a blog report from HFAC member, Lisa Yarde, of the 2013 Historical Novel Society’s Fifth Annual North American Conference. We will be trying to repost as many of these reports as possible. Do please chime in if you also attended to add your two cents!) Hello from beautiful St.… Read More »Report on HNS 2013: Religion in Historical Fiction by Lisa Yarde
To step into an Islamic home in the Middle Ages was to enter an exotic but familiar world. Family life revolved around the sanctuary of the women. Known to the West as harem, the term referred to the inner sanctum of a house and its mainly female occupants. It was… Read More »At Home in the Harem, by Lisa Yarde
Although most of my Silver Rush historical mysteries are set high in the Rocky Mountains in 1880s Leadville, Colorado, the fourth and latest, Mercury’s Rise, has my protagonist Inez Stannert heading down to Manitou Springs to reunite with her young son and his guardian, Inez’s beloved sister. As I nosed… Read More »Consumed by Consumption in the 19th Century American West – TB and Mercury’s Rise, by Ann Parker
I both love and hate doing research. It’s often tedious, always time consuming. Sometimes I’m looking for a needle in a haystack, (like when, for another book, I needed to find an example of a kiss between bride and groom during a wedding ceremony). Sometimes I’m looking for information, bits… Read More »Research and Setting, by V. R. Christensen