Happy New Year 2019 fellow readers and writers! I hope it is off to a good start for you. Personally, I cannot complain. I will be returning with more historical fiction reviews soon, but for now I wanted to share with you exciting news. The Greenest Branch, my historical novel based on the life of... Continue Reading →
Library Talk: The Flu Epidemic of 1918
To paraphrase a classic, a writer's work is never done. That's why this post, which should have appeared a month ago - closer the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the flu pandemic - is posted only now. But I was in the middle of doing final manuscript revisions for my second book (to be... Continue Reading →
Excerpt from The Column of Burning Spices (Hildegard of Bingen #2)
Chapter 25 Ingelheim, May 1154 Volmar presented the letter of invitation stamped with the royal seal to a guard. We were ushered through an arched tunnel into the inner courtyard, where brightly-dressed courtiers and clerics in dark lawyers’ robes came and went between the buildings ranged along the perimeter. I noted signs of both greatness... Continue Reading →