Finding War is my 14th published book. It’s a sequel to Finding Joaquin, and the second in a projected trilogy. Most of my tales take place in California during the 19th or early 20th centuries, though they sometimes wander into Nevada. I read and write historical fiction in part to… Read More »Finding War by Steve Bartholomew
In the winter of 1349, the highest court official of the Nasrid Dynasty, based within Granada’s Alhambra Palace delivered the eulogy for a dynasty member who had recently died. Not one of the notable rulers, the Sultans, or even a prince. Rather, a woman, a queen, a Sultana. She would… Read More »Medieval Moorish Queens of Spain: Fatima – Daughter, sister, mother, and powerbroker by Lisa Yarde
Until I started researching the late Victorian theater for my latest book, Moriarty Brings Down the House, I had never heard of such a thing as a Christmas pantomime. Fellow Americans may be thinking, “Why should you have?” while British readers are thinking, “What?! How is that even possible?” It… Read More »Christmas Pantomimes by Anna Castle
When I was asked by best selling mystery author, Toby Neal, to be in the launch of her Lei Crime Kindle World (mysteries set in Hawaii) in the spring of 2015, the first thing I had to do was look up the word count for a novella– 17,000 to 40,000… Read More »Writing in a Kindle World by Janet Oakley
Forty Dead Men is the story of Alafair Tucker’s eldest son George, known as Gee Dub, recently returned from the trenches of World War I. Everyone in the family thinks he is the same good-natured youth who left for France a year earlier. Except for his mother, who senses that… Read More »Forty Dead Men, An Alafair Tucker Mystery #10 by Donis Casey