Some time ago, The Globe and Mail posted this column from the archives to mark the years since D-Day. It begins with words from Winston Churchill written in 1940. With
This week’s Bookends, a feature in the New York Times Book Review, asks two authors to describe their non-literary influences. Thomas Mallon who writes historical fiction cites photos such as one
I’m becoming a firm believer in the adage that you never know what each day will bring – today was no exception. Since my mother is moving to a retirement
Sheilagh Lee over at Fear Not the Darkness has a review of Unravelled this morning and I’m delighted that she agreed to participate in the blog tour. She gives Unravelled
My brother, Dave, also known as the historian in our family, responded to Songs to Nail Hitler with an email pointing out two other notable songs sung with, no doubt,
Songs That Will Help Us Nail Hitler is a pamphlet my grandfather kept in his WWII scrapbooks. The title says it all, doesn’t it, about the feelings of hatred that
When is your manuscript done? A facetious answer is ‘when it’s done’. And there are endless opportunities to tweak and tighten but I thought I was done when I sent
During a visit to the Canadian War Museum, I spent an hour or two in its associated Military History Research Centre. I have a few notes from that visit that
Self-publishing requires a writer to take on all sorts of unfamiliar tasks. One of these is creating the enticing but brief ‘blurb’ that will describe your book to potential readers.
In WWII, my grandfather was Lieutenant Colonel of ‘A’ Corps Signals, a reserves unit. With the objective of communicating regularly to the men involved, the began a monthly newsletter and
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
