Finding War is my 14th published book. It’s a sequel to Finding Joaquin, and the second in a projected trilogy. Most of my tales take place in California during the 19th or early 20th centuries, though they sometimes wander into Nevada. I read and write historical fiction in part to… Read More »Finding War by Steve Bartholomew
Until I started researching the late Victorian theater for my latest book, Moriarty Brings Down the House, I had never heard of such a thing as a Christmas pantomime. Fellow Americans may be thinking, “Why should you have?” while British readers are thinking, “What?! How is that even possible?” It… Read More »Christmas Pantomimes by Anna Castle
Forty Dead Men is the story of Alafair Tucker’s eldest son George, known as Gee Dub, recently returned from the trenches of World War I. Everyone in the family thinks he is the same good-natured youth who left for France a year earlier. Except for his mother, who senses that… Read More »Forty Dead Men, An Alafair Tucker Mystery #10 by Donis Casey
Sometimes, contrarian that I am, I just can’t help myself. Despite being a pacifist at heart, the military Orders in medieval Europe have long fascinated me. I find it difficult to understand how a faith that says forgiveness is its base could ever justify violence. Yet there they were: Brother… Read More »The Hospitallers by Priscilla Royal
Five years after the 2009 debut of my first historical novel, Rubies of the Viper, I began work on its sequel, The Viper Amulet, which was published in 2017. When that second book’s own sequel, The Ruby Ring, is finished in 2019, it will complete the sprawling first-century family saga… Read More »The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Writing a Fictional Sequel by Martha Marks