The people living on Crete in the first three books of The Child of the Erinyes were great believers in omens, prophecies, signs, and portents from the gods. My imagining of Bronze Age Crete had hundreds of priestesses as well as priests, all of whom devoted themselves to pleasing the… Read More »Tripping on ’shrooms in the Highlands by Rebecca Lochlann
There is no such thing as history. Facts happen. The First World War happened. But who started it, and why – this is the story we tell ourselves later. It’s an opinion, it doesn’t exist outside the mind of the person writing that history. When I was a kid John… Read More »THE GREAT HISTORY HOAX by Colin Falconer
I didn’t intend to write historical fiction based on events or eras in my corner of the Pacific NW. My first novel, The Jossing Affair, was, after all, set in WW II Norway. I suppose it’s my first love, but when I needed a paper to write for my class… Read More »Finding Historical Stories in Your Backyard by Janet Oakley
In the interest of saving the best for last, I’ve graced my last Tito Amato mystery with a plotline that I’ve been keeping in reserve for a long time. Whispers of Vivaldi, to be published in January 2014, features Angeletto, a young male soprano who has taken Naples and Milan… Read More »Eighteenth-century Gender Bending by Beverle Graves Myers
We are all time travelers; we travel through time every millisecond of our lives. It’s just that we can only move in one direction—into the future. Theoretically, time travel into the future and into the past are two distinct concepts. Traveling into the future could happen merely by slowing down your own… Read More »Is Time Travel Possible? by Sarah Woodbury