What was Robert the Bruce really like? On occasion, I have been asked if I would have liked to live in the past. Actually, I don’t think I’d want to live in medieval Scotland (lack of modern comforts being the major factor), but I’d definitely like to visit. Perhaps just long enough… Read More »The Honor Due A King: The Bruce Trilogy, Book III by N. Gemini Sasson
The Year-god’s Daughter by Rebecca Lochlann When I conceived the idea of The Year-god’s Daughter, (and eventually the entire series) most of us relied on dot-matrix printers. I still have a stack of yellowing sheets with holes along both edges, but the story and its author have undergone so many transformations that… Read More »The Year-god’s Daughter by Rebecca Lochlann
“The Heart of a Lie,” by Meg North “Daniel’s Garden” was a huge project that took me many years to research and write. By the time I came to the final draft, I had learned so much about the Civil War era that it was natural to set another story… Read More »The Heart of a Lie by Meg North
Does this picture look familiar? No, it’s not Lucretia (Dying for Rome) but this woman’s story is depressingly similar to that of the tragic Roman matron who was raped by an Etruscan prince. She is Virginia, whose death, just like Lucretia’s, was the catalyst for significant change in Rome. The… Read More »Dying for Rome by Elisabeth Storrs
When I write historical fiction I look for the holes in history, because that’s where I can fill in the gaps and allow imagination free reign. Writing historical fiction is similar to writing fantasy, except, when writing historical fiction, there are limitations. To some extent, we know about other times,… Read More »Holes in History—license for imagination by Suzanne Tyrpak