For twenty years before I started writing novels, I was a radio and television broadcaster in Los Angeles, having worked for all three national networks and the local PBS station during that “other” career. I find, eleven novels and two nonfiction books later, that the skillset I acquired in that… Read More »Fact Vs. Fiction: Getting It Right (Even When You’re Making It Up) by CiJi Ware
Stephen de Blois came to London, and the people received him and hallowed him to king on midwinter day. But in this king’s time was all dissension, and evil, and rapine; for against him rose soon the rich men who were traitors. Then was England very much divided. Some held… Read More »The Anarchy by Sarah Woodbury
He is a king, a warrior, the last hope of his people—and the chosen one of the side… Writing heroic fantasy set in dark age Wales combines the need for research typical of historical fiction with the world building of mainstream fantasy. That’s partly because it brings in the world of… Read More »Heroic Fantasy in Dark Age Wales by Sarah Woodbury
There’s a razor-thin line between history and fiction. Scholars used to think the Iliad was all made up, until the actual ruins of Troy were found. What fascinates me about the bandit Joaquin Murietta is that no one really knows how much of his story is true. My book Finding… Read More »About Finding Joaquin by Steve Bartholomew
It has been estimated that the Roman Empire’s Legions, over a nine-hundred year period, lost an average of one-thousand troops annually from combat. When we compare modern combat deaths, this is amazing. Though the number of killed and wounded in the U.S. Civil War (1861 – 1865) is not known… Read More »Combat Casualties and Battlefield Medicine through the Ages by Lloyd Lofthouse