Originally scheduled to take place in San Antonio, Texas, the   2021 Historical Novel Society Conference  was successfully transformed into ...

In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters by Nancy Goldstone The au...

***Congratulations*** to giveaway winner Laura B. of Ontario, Canada In recognition of Women's Fiction Day, June 8, 2021, a giveaway! Th...

  Available for pre-order through Indiebound, Bookshop.org, Amazon, Kindle, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Kob...

 The blogging went on hiatus for the second half of my Pandemic Year. It wasn't exactly intentional, but not entirely accidental, either...

The hours, days, weeks, and months flow by--differently than they did before the pandemic, yet also much the same. As in prior years, the ro...

Half of this highly unusual year has passed, and the blog suffered from neglect as I focused on other aspects of writing life and life in ge...