I write a historical fantasy series inspired by a little-known Hittite queen. There are two titles thus far in the series, Priestess of Ishana and Sorcery in Alpara. “My” queen is still a very young woman in these books, but I intend to follow the main events of her long life… Read More »Digging out the Hittites by Judith Starkston
“I’m American, born to American parents,” a young girl announces in the opening scene of Ration of Lies, the eighth and most recent book in my Maggie Sullivan mystery series. Daisy Hashimoto is the fictional face of a little-known historical fact: Between 1943 and 1946, when most of America’s Japanese-American… Read More »During WWII: Working With Those Who Look Like The Enemy by M. Ruth Myers
I once was a high school English educator, and I loved teaching Macbeth. When I decided to try writing a novel, that’s what came to mind, so I invented a girl in the thane’s household who had her own story to tell while his went on in the background. After… Read More »Moving On from Historical Fiction? Well, Maybe by Peg Herring
Many authors have written medieval murder mysteries, including me! In The Irish Bride, my latest medieval mystery, a monk is found dead within moments of Gwen and Gareth’s arrival in Ireland. As medieval detectives, how do they go about finding the killer? What can they possibly determine forensically without laboratories,… Read More »Medieval Forensics by Sarah Woodbury
Anthony Bacon (1558-1601) was Francis Bacon’s full brother and one of the few people we know he truly loved. They were close friends throughout Anthony’s life. That’s his only known portrait on the cover of my new book, The Spymaster’s Brother. The ideal biographer Francis Bacon is the subject of… Read More »Anthony Bacon by Anna Castle