Today is Independence Day for the United States. What most Americans don’t know, however, is that, while Wales never managed an independence day for itself, Welsh people had a huge impact on the founding of the United States and were leading inciters and leaders of its revolution. Thomas Jefferson, the… Read More »The Welsh Foundation of the American Revolution by Sarah Woodbury
Dead, but still working. That’s the idea behind the Dead Detective Mysteries. Book #1, THE DEAD DETECTIVE AGENCY, was named Best Mystery of 2012 by the Electronic Publishing Internet Coalition. Readers met Seamus, a detective who died in the 1950s and has been hanging around the gateway to the Afterlife… Read More »The Final Case of Dead Detective Seamus Hanrahan by Peg Herring
“He found the young man lying in the snow, his battered body pushed deep under the brambles at the bottom of a ravine. If it had not been for the sound of the car door slamming, Hans Gunnerson would never have found him.” This is how my new WW… Read More »Researching The Jossing Affair by J. L. Oakley
My new book, Masters of Time, the tenth book in the After Cilmeri series, opens with an attempted murder using a Welsh longbow. What’s significant about this use is that it occurred in France, where bows had given way to crossbow—a far easier weapon to use for someone who didn’t… Read More »What was so special about the Longbow? by Sarah Woodbury
What would you think if suddenly people you’ve known for years begin to look at you with suspicion, for no other reason than the fact that your brother is a liberal leftist, or you have a foreign-sounding name, or you said something critical about the government? You have to be… Read More »The Green Corn Rebellion by Donis Casey