Finishing Jerusalem Falls and seeing it in print has been particularly exhilarating for me. I worked with that story for four long years through some pretty difficult things. Even though it’s my second, I learned a thing or two about how much work it takes, and how excruciating it can… Read More »Jerusalem Falls by Jack Dixon
Inspiring ideas, amazing encounters. People often ask ‘where do your ideas come from, what makes you want to write this particular story?’ And it is interesting to remember that there really is a moment when the story was sparked off by a chance encounter, conversation, newspaper article or even a… Read More »Inspiring ideas, amazing encounters by Loretta Proctor
Choices Shaping NO GAME FOR A DAME When people hear my new mystery features a female private eye in 1938 – in a midwestern city that doesn’t usually top the list of glamour spots – some think I’ve lost my mind. Actually, that usually occurs early in a writer’s career, and… Read More »Why a Dame in 1938? by M. Ruth Myers
The Thrills and Spills of Researching the Distant Past By Nan Hawthorne, author of Beloved Pilgrim, a novel of the Crusade of 1101 In history class in college we learn about the difference between primary and secondary sources, but anyone who has tried to research events in the Middle Ages knows… Read More »The Thrills and Spills of Researching the Distant Past by Nan Hawthorne
Creatures of Conscience in a Scary World For such a small historical (84K), The Scattered Proud is difficult to talk about. It’s too personal, I suppose: founded upon questions and subjects that have fascinated me since I was a child. In fact, several years ago, when I first blogged the opening chapters,… Read More »The Scattered Proud by Gev Sweeney