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 […]

Why I Named My Heroine After a Mongoose

This week Rue Allyn joins us with some literary facts behind her fiction: why she named her female character after a male mongoose. According to Google’s AI, “Rikky is a feminine name that evolved as a diminutive or variant spelling of Ricki, which itself originated as a nickname for names like Erica, Richelle, or Patricia.” However, […]

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 […]

Facts About Ghosts

Join Rue Allyn who tells us the facts about ghostly phenomena or at least what she’s learned to make her story plausible. In my next two books (still in progress) I’ll be branching out into what used to be called Paranormal Romance and I believe is now termed Romantasy. Regardless of the specific sub-genre name […]