The Guayaquil Conference The South American wars of independence are barely known outside its borders: a bloody, twelve year conflict spanning the entire continent. On one side was a group of poorly armed rebels, mercenaries, and escaped slaves; on the other, the might of the Spanish Empire. Simón Bolívar led… Read More »A Storm Hits Valparaiso by David Gaughran
What was Robert the Bruce really like? On occasion, I have been asked if I would have liked to live in the past. Actually, I don’t think I’d want to live in medieval Scotland (lack of modern comforts being the major factor), but I’d definitely like to visit. Perhaps just long enough… Read More »The Honor Due A King: The Bruce Trilogy, Book III by N. Gemini Sasson
The Year-god’s Daughter by Rebecca Lochlann When I conceived the idea of The Year-god’s Daughter, (and eventually the entire series) most of us relied on dot-matrix printers. I still have a stack of yellowing sheets with holes along both edges, but the story and its author have undergone so many transformations that… Read More »The Year-god’s Daughter by Rebecca Lochlann
“The Heart of a Lie,” by Meg North “Daniel’s Garden” was a huge project that took me many years to research and write. By the time I came to the final draft, I had learned so much about the Civil War era that it was natural to set another story… Read More »The Heart of a Lie by Meg North
Does this picture look familiar? No, it’s not Lucretia (Dying for Rome) but this woman’s story is depressingly similar to that of the tragic Roman matron who was raped by an Etruscan prince. She is Virginia, whose death, just like Lucretia’s, was the catalyst for significant change in Rome. The… Read More »Dying for Rome by Elisabeth Storrs