Walk to Paradise Garden takes the reader on a life journey that spans an entire century. The catalyst for my story’s premise was, in part, a result of my interest in various individuals who thrived on both sides of 1914, such as Maestro Arturo Toscanini who interacted with the last… Read More »The Catalyst for Walk to Paradise Garden by John B. Campbell
Historical fiction is exciting to write because it offers opportunities to explore a different world from the one we live in. Inventing characters to fit into distant places and times is mostly fun, but mixing fictional characters with people who actually lived in another era ups the ante, not only… Read More »Real People in Historical Fiction by Martha Marks
The history of Wales predates Roman settlements to a Celtic people who called themselves the Cymry. It was a society as much rooted in warfare as it was in bardic tradition. Although the Welsh as a society were autonomous from England for many centuries, the proximity of the two countries… Read More »Owain Glyndwr and the Welsh War of Independence by N. Gemini Sasson
Back in high school, I remember overhearing two girls lamenting how awful their classes were and how they ‘hated’ history. Since I was hiding in a bathroom stall at the time, I didn’t give voice to my horror at their sentiment, but it has stuck with me in the thirty… Read More »Writing Historical Fiction by Sarah Woodbury
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