Falcon Blue, book six of The Child of the Erinyes,was the only book of the series not already drafted when I began publishing. I didn’t intend to write this story at all: my plan was to merely allude to it in other books. But after finishing The Sixth Labyrinth, I… Read More »Researching the First Reincarnation: Falcon Blue
“And there was effected the betrayal of Llywelyn in the belfry of Bangor by his own men.” —Brut y Tywysogyon, Peniarth manuscript 20. (Chronicle of the Princes) This comment is sandwiched between the description of the defeat of the English at the Menai Straits on November 6th, and the death… Read More »Betrayal in the Belfry at Bangor by Sarah Woodbury
I most often write about ancient history, so my 2016 novel Mercer Girls, set in mid- to late-19th-century Seattle, was a bit of a departure for me. It’s a novel I wrote for my traditional publisher, Lake Union, as they were hoping for a “historical beach read” for their summer… Read More »Lou Graham, Notorious Madam of Old Seattle by Libbie Hawker
The recent launch of The Gingerbread Spy, book 4 in my WW2 series about the German Resistance, took me back into the heart of the subject. In particular, I took another long look at the Allies’ preparations for D-Day and the critical role played by German double agents under the… Read More »The Black Orchestra – The Real Story by JJ Toner
On the eve of the American Civil War, the United States and Great Britain nearly came to blows over a Berkshire pig. Known locally in Washington Territory as the Pig War, it actually is a story of how two countries, one powerful and the other just beginning to rise, came… Read More »The Pig War by J. L. Oakley