Hell With the Lid Blown Off takes place in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, during the sultry summer of 1916. Storms are brewing all over; the country is teetering on the brink of World War I. Alafair Tucker fears for her children’s future as they grow up and her ability to protect… Read More »Reality is as Bizarre as Fiction, by Donis Casey
I recently wrote a long post for my own blog on why I love writing short stories, and in the process I discovered that six other of the members of the Historical Fiction Authors Cooperative (HFAC) have written short historical fiction as well (novellas or short stories). I am not… Read More »Historical Fiction Shorts – Glimpses into the Past by M. Louisa Locke
My books are set in medieval Wales, and many of the male characters wear armor at one time or another. While wearing armor and the padding underneath certainly made the wearer warm, that medieval swords and armor were ‘heavy’ is one of the strangest misconceptions of medieval life. These people’s… Read More »Medieval Armor and Swords Were NOT Heavy by Sarah Woodbury
For the chronicler, the charm of history lies in the fact that—if only he waits a sufficient time before setting down his tale—he can always trace the fall of an empire to the loss of a horseshoe nail. Hermann B. Deutsch, The Incredible Yanqui. It’s difficult to subscribe to any… Read More »Lee Christmas, Soldier of Fortune by David Gaughran
The continuing brouhaha* between Hachette Book Group and amazon.com may seem to us like some totally unprecedented firestorm born of the collision between, well, an old immovable object like print culture and an irresistible force such as digital publishing. But, no, while this firestorm may well result from a modern… Read More »Textual Anxiety by Joanne Dobson