The Amazon MatchBook program bundles ebook editions with print editions of books, and just in time for the Holidays, a number of the members of the Historical Fiction Authors Cooperative have made the matching ebook versions of their following print books FREE. This is the perfect gift for readers who… Read More »Historical Fiction for the Holidays: Print and Ebook Bundles
I got a call from an acquaintance the other day, and as we chatted, he remarked that the youth of America is lazy, poorly educated, and unmotivated. It brought to mind a quotation I used to read to my students that says much the same thing. Children have no respect… Read More »How History Can Make You Happy by Peg Herring
HFAC member Steve Bartholomew has just published Black Bart Reborn, another of his lively tales about the Old West, and Richard Sutton, one of our other members, has done an excellent interview with him about this book. First, a quick description of Black Bart Reborn: [box] When Black Bart left… Read More »Interview with the author of Black Bart Reborn
The people living on Crete in the first three books of The Child of the Erinyes were great believers in omens, prophecies, signs, and portents from the gods. My imagining of Bronze Age Crete had hundreds of priestesses as well as priests, all of whom devoted themselves to pleasing the… Read More »Tripping on ’shrooms in the Highlands by Rebecca Lochlann
There is no such thing as history. Facts happen. The First World War happened. But who started it, and why – this is the story we tell ourselves later. It’s an opinion, it doesn’t exist outside the mind of the person writing that history. When I was a kid John… Read More »THE GREAT HISTORY HOAX by Colin Falconer