Throughout history, people have regarded the profession of public executioner much as they regarded that of the undertaker. From the point of view of the layperson, the undertaker’s job had a massive “ick” factor attached, usually originating from a superstitious dread of human corpses and, by extension, of the people… Read More »An Unsuitable Job for a Gentleman by Susanne Alleyn
1326. A year that shall live in infamy. The story of the first and only woman to invade England I was educated at a grammar school in Essex where the teachers wore mortarboard hats and long gowns and we had the names of ex-students killed in the two wars inscribed… Read More »The story of the first and only woman to invade England by Colin Falconer
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