My Victorian San Francisco Mystery series features Annie Fuller, a widow who runs a boarding house, supplements her income as a clairvoyant, and investigates crimes. She fights hard to maintain her economic independence, and this independent streak gets her in trouble and causes personal and romantic difficulties. This is fiction,… Read More »When Truth is Stranger than Fiction by M. Louisa Locke
What is it that makes a hero a hero? I’d like to think it’s a determination to see one’s way around any given obstacle, even when, or perhaps more so when, that obstacle requires one to change his manner of thinking. For years I felt that Cry of the Peacock… Read More »Mrs. Benz’s Wild Ride by V.R. Christensen
Ever wonder why we study the past? I mean really, what’s the point? It’s over. Done with. Shouldn’t we just move on? I was going to blog about the Siege of Berwick and the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333, in relation to my new time travel novel, In the… Read More »Why Understanding the Past Matters by N. Gemini Sasson
The original idea for The Black Orchestra came to me after reading two books on German WW2 spies in Ireland: Spies in Ireland by Enno Stephan, Four Squares, 1965 Irish Secrets by Mark M. Hull, Irish Academic Press, 2003 These books were full of laughable tales involving spies in Ireland… Read More »WW2 Spy Story – Novel Construction and Research by JJ Toner
It is a stereotype that women in the Middle Ages had two career options: mother or holy woman, with prostitute or chattel filling in the gaps between those two. Whether we like it or not, for the most part this stereotype is accurate and the status and role of women in that era… Read More »A Woman Detective in Medieval Wales? by Sarah Woodbury