Transported into a WWI Trench
Having written three novels featuring World War One, I’ve learned a lot about trenches. I’ve even been in one or two although of course, they’re now sanitized and bear no
August 16, 2018
Having written three novels featuring World War One, I’ve learned a lot about trenches. I’ve even been in one or two although of course, they’re now sanitized and bear no
RMS Walmer Castle – nearing Cape Town This finds us completing the second part of our voyage and we should be in port again the day after tomorrow. I wrote
When I saw Susie Murphy’s cover for her novel A Class Apart, I had to invite her to talk about my favourite topic – transporting readers in time and place.
Helen Hollick has written a series of nautical Voyages based around her fictional pirate, Captain Jesamiah Acorne and his ship, Sea Witch, but her latest UK release in paperback is
I began this series as Somewhere in France – it looks like I’ll soon have to call it Somewhere in Africa. This is our tenth day out and as I
What has happened to Henry Tod and where is the RMS Walmer Castle going? 1st January 1917 My dear Father and Mother, When you see this you will be wondering,
Sue Ingalls Finan is the author of The Cards Don’t Lie. She taught American history and literature in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Northern California, and now lives in Sonoma County with
Henry Tod’s letters home have an unexplained gap of more than six months and unfortunately, there is no one alive to ask for details. We’ll pick up the story in
Vernon Sankey and I met on a Baltic cruise – to be more exact, Vernon and his wife were on the sun deck lounging next to my husband and I
Age must be making me more philosophical – or perhaps it’s the writing I do with the focus it brings on characters’ emotions, motivations, joys, and disappointments. A number of
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
