The History of Halloween

Jude Knight joins us with facts about All Hallow’s Eve (which we now know as Halloween), and the influence it has on the new Bluestocking Belles collection, Moonlight Madness, a set of independent stories, all set around the end of October. Samhain, a Celtic festival whose name meant “The End of Summer” once fell on […]

Thegns and Scribes

Elizabeth Donne Joins us today to talk about medieval thegns and scribes, and how they impacted her story The Legend Begins, Book One of Forevers in Fenwick. Although The Legend Begins is a Regency novella, the legend itself supposedly originated in 924AD with a scribe called Alwin. Medieval scribes are commonly imagined as monks, copying […]

Enchantment, Legend, and the Cloutie Tree

Highlighting Historical Romance: Luanna Stewart Thank you, Caroline, for inviting me to visit with your readers. The Enchanted Keepsakes collection of novels revolves around a central legend – that of a witch doomed to roam through time and space, her one goal being to grant wishes. When I began working on the idea for my […]