I didn’t intend to write historical fiction based on events or eras in my corner of the Pacific NW. My first novel, The Jossing Affair, was, after all, set in WW II Norway. I suppose it’s my first love, but when I needed a paper to write for my class… Read More »Finding Historical Stories in Your Backyard by Janet Oakley
Throughout history, people have regarded the profession of public executioner much as they regarded that of the undertaker. From the point of view of the layperson, the undertaker’s job had a massive “ick” factor attached, usually originating from a superstitious dread of human corpses and, by extension, of the people… Read More »An Unsuitable Job for a Gentleman by Susanne Alleyn
In the interest of saving the best for last, I’ve graced my last Tito Amato mystery with a plotline that I’ve been keeping in reserve for a long time. Whispers of Vivaldi, to be published in January 2014, features Angeletto, a young male soprano who has taken Naples and Milan… Read More »Eighteenth-century Gender Bending by Beverle Graves Myers
We are all time travelers; we travel through time every millisecond of our lives. It’s just that we can only move in one direction—into the future. Theoretically, time travel into the future and into the past are two distinct concepts. Traveling into the future could happen merely by slowing down your own… Read More »Is Time Travel Possible? by Sarah Woodbury
1326. A year that shall live in infamy. The story of the first and only woman to invade England I was educated at a grammar school in Essex where the teachers wore mortarboard hats and long gowns and we had the names of ex-students killed in the two wars inscribed… Read More »The story of the first and only woman to invade England by Colin Falconer