The King’s Daughters
Every once in a while someone with a passion for history and a love of good story telling comes across a historical figure, movement, or event that makes them sit up and think,… Continue reading
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Daughters of the American Revolution
I’ve written a lot about the Civil War in the past few years, but my true interest has always been the Revolutionary War. During the 90s, when I began uncovering my family’s genealogy, I discovered… Continue reading
Travels Through Historical Fiction: Sands of the Namib
As the second of three posts set in Africa, we are traveling to Nambia’s Atlantic coast where an unexpected experience awaits. Leaving Windhoek, Nambia’s capital, we traveled west to Swakopmund, a resort town… Continue reading
Cadillac, Pontiac, Ford, and My Hometown
The story of Detroit, the city where I was born, is, at heart, the story of trade routes, roads, automobiles, and eventually the Saint Lawrence seaway and shipping. It has always been about… Continue reading
Agent 355–A Patriot In Petticoats
Long before Agent 007 was a germ of an idea in Ian Fleming’s mind, there was Agent 355, one of the first female spies in America, active during the Revolutionary War. But unlike… Continue reading
Travels Through Historical Fiction: a Vast and Open Land
It was never on my bucket list. Not even on a far flung, sorta, maybe, if I hit the lottery and have nothing better to do wish list. It was, however, on my… Continue reading
Pistols for the Uninformed
One of the challenges a writer of historical fiction faces is, of course, describing appropriate items in usage during the time in which the story is set, particularly the kind with which he… Continue reading
The Ohio Firelands
When I moved back to Ohio after an absence of several decades, I ended up in a part of the state previously unexplored by me, despite having spent the first twenty-two years of… Continue reading
Travels Through Historical Fiction, Readers’ Edition: Land of the Midnight Sun
Several years ago, I gave myself a gift. It was something I had always wanted. We live in the Houston area. Traffic is nothing short of horrendous and the freeways are constantly under… Continue reading
Brûlé and the Great Lakes
In 1610, a full ten years before the pilgrims put their tentative boots on Plymouth Rock, Samuel de Champlain sent a young man, who had arrived with in Quebec just two years before,… Continue reading