Author Mary Burns returns with advice on dual-timeline mysteries. Her latest novel is The Eleventh Commandment, the fourth Sargent/Paget mystery, which is described as “Sherlock and Watson meet Indiana Jones.”
Writing Paris In Ruins involved research into the political environment, rivalries, economics, and egos of those involved in the Franco-Prussian war and the siege of Paris. On the Prussian side
The Admiral’s Wife was conceived as a novel based on my expat experience in Hong Kong for three years. In the very first version, I created four women who bonded
Emma Darwin’s blog, This Itch of Writing, is one of my go-to sources for the craft of writing. Emma has just started a series of bitesized posts on writing and
Well, part 2 of this topic generated a lively and at times challenging discussion on the HNS Facebook page, so it’s with a little trepidation that I offer up part
Karen Chase was one of the authors who participated with me and others in a Christmas book giveaway. She’s an independent author and a Daughter of the American Revolution with
This is the second of two posts on Portraying Women in Historical Fiction based on a presentation author Gina Buonaguro and I did for the recent History Quill convention. You
Sarah Woodbury was featured on several occasions during the HNS 2021 conference. She’s an impressive author with great success in self-publishing and I wrote about one of her presentations in
I’m always intrigued by the paths that spark an author’s first novel. For me, it was being an expat in Hong Kong with no job, no family, and almost no
Mike Kanner and I connected a few months ago over the topic of WWI trenches. Yes, connections can come from all sorts of places! With a military career behind him,
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