For starters – a golf course in Palm Springs? Count me in! Mr. Kraft and I get to Palm Springs at least once a year, and our son and his partner join us from L.A. (where we absolutely refuse to drive any longer). We’ve taken in the marvelous Judy Show at the Purple Room, gone […]
Book Information Book Title: The King’s Command: For God or Country Author: Rosemary Hayes Publication Date: July 3rd, 2023 Publisher: Sharpe Books Page Length: 415 Genre: Historical Fiction Blurb: Sixteen-year-old Lidie Brunier has everything; looks, wealth, health and a charming suitor, but there are dark clouds on the horizon. Lidie and her family are committed […]
Tomorrow, I will host and review The King’s Command by Rosemary Hayes, a lovely new historical fiction novel. Her story traces the experience of her French Protestant ancestors in the late 1600s, during the period of King Louis XIV’s persecution and his revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Reading that story, which is backed by […]
If you’re an American, take a moment today to ponder how we got here. The American Revolution was a complex web of motivations, alliances, happenstance, luck, hard work, and some would say divine providence. If you only ever read three books to deepen your understanding, here is what I recommend: The Men Who Lost America: […]
I started the month of June thinking that since I have well over thirty published books with bisexual or lesbian women as heroines, I should feature one of them every day all month. I quickly backed out of that plan and decided to mostly focus on other queer books I thought should be showcased, sprinkling […]
I downloaded the first book in this series because I have Scottish/Celtic roots in my ancestry, and I’m always curious to know what my ancestors’ life was like. I was vaguely aware that Rome had attempted conquest of much of what is now Scotland but then had withdrawn to Hadrian’s Wall by the time they […]
Love reading about threesomes? Me too, and most of the stories my husband and I write together under this pen name feature threesomes (and even a few more-somes). But I’m also an avid reader, and recently I’ve read a pair of threesome stories that you won’t want to miss. Ever egalitarian, I will let you […]
When you read historical fiction that’s anchored in real events, do you ever wonder where your own ancestors were at that point in time, what their role was, what they were doing? My husband and I each have UK and European ancestors, and we’ve been able to follow some of their lines back farther than […]
Can a book be simultaneously extremely subtle and dynamically shocking? Yes. The House in the Cerulean Sea is such a book. This is a long story, so bear with me. If you’re not on Instagram, you might not be aware that over the last couple weeks, vast numbers of authors, reviewers and bookstagrammers began posting […]
The Last Great Saxon Earls, by Mercedes Rochelle I first “met” Earl Godwine in Helen Hollick’s exquisite fictional account of Queen Emma, The Forever Queen. But the earl and his sons were shadowy figures on the edges of my awareness as I continued to explore more pre-Norman historical fiction. Mercedes Rochelle has knit all the puzzle […]