Author’s Blog

Letter Writing in the Regency Era

Highlighting Historical Mystery with Barbara Monajem’s research into letter writing in the early 19th Century While writing Lady Rosamund and the Poison Pen, I had to research letter writing two hundred years ago. So much has changed since then! In my childhood, before the age of cheap long-distance calls and then the Internet, we communicated […]

It’s a Puzzle

Along with toilet paper, baby chicks, and hand sanitizer, the great covid-19 lockdown has produced a run on jigsaw puzzles. Luckily our house was prepared. Beloved got two big ones for Christmas and we have not yet had to break out our previous stock. Progress, and yet, confusion. Not unlike the state of the country, […]

Kidnapped by a Love Story

Highlighting Historical Romance with Clare Rhoden and some lovely stories from The Great War Hi, I’m Clare Rhoden and I live in Melbourne Australia. I’m thrilled to be here today to tell you a bit about my First World War novel, The Stars in the Night. I was kidnapped into the era by a love […]

Sunshine and Flowers

It remains nippy here and spring rains have been abundant, but there’s enough sun to brighten up my mood. (I’ve ever been prone the seasonal affective despond) Another round of flowers has decided to pop now that the daffodils, forsythia, and tulip trees have faded. I give to you my dogwood tree: Which is to […]

Conspiracy on Cato Street

Highlighting Historical Romance with Donna Hatch and the Cato Street Conspiracy It is England in 1820, a time of social and economic upheaval. The long-term Napoleonic wars had ended, but peace was far from realized. Unemployed career soldiers and sailors flooded the workforce. Industrial change pulled England from a largely agricultural country to one of […]