In the 1930s – in spite of the Great Depression – American cars positively sizzled with personality. Sure, there were Fords and Dodges and Buicks aplenty. But who hasn’t heard of them? Even their highbrow cousin Cadillac wouldn’t flutter the pulses of someone like me, whose interest in cars has… Read More »SEDUCTIVE CARS OF THE 1930s by M. Ruth Myers
I have always read historical fiction. When I was a child I associated fiction with times and places far removed from my current suburban routine, from the Little House books to the Great Brain series. As I grew up my fiction continued to be historical. I graduated to the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen.… Read More »Fact and Fiction by Annmarie Banks
Children have such wonderful blank canvases for minds. And the books they read at this period become impressed as if on soft clay that has not yet baked and hardened into an unchangeable shape by adult experiences and disappointments. The books that impressed me as a child… Read More »Treading Life’s Broad Highway by Loretta Proctor
When we first considered writing a series of World War II-era mystery novels set in New York City, we wondered if even the largest city on America’s homefront experienced enough action, conflict, suspense and terror to make for compelling wartime stories. When it comes to WWII narrative, the great European… Read More »New York in Wartime by Joanne Dobson and Beverle Graves Myers
[box] With a grating clash, the earth beneath them split, sucking them into a fissure. Chrysaleon, flailing as he fell, caught a protruding root in his right hand and Aridela’s wrist in the left. He strained to hold her, groaning beneath shooting agony in his injured arm and thigh as… Read More »Volcanic Eruption of Callisti–The Lost City of Atlantis? by Rebecca Lochlann