Writers find their impetus in endless different ways. Some authors are influenced by people or books, sometimes events, still others by objects or...
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Historical Fiction Interview with Paper Lantern Writer Anne Beggs
I'm delighted to be interviewing Anne M. Beggs this month, author of Archer's Grace, first in the Dahlquin series set in Medieval Ireland. This is...
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‘Tis Her Season
Royal Regard
Blind Tribute
New Member Spotlight: Paula Martinac
What would you like readers to know about you? I write award-winning historical fiction with a queer and feminist twist. My characters—overlooked...
Holiday Food Traditions… (with recipes)
Living alone with minimal family, one tends to create one’s own traditions, but in my case, a few food traditions have emerged along the way that...
A Short Trip Back Into a Book’s World
To corrupt the famous words of Blaise Pascal: I didn’t have time to write a short story, so I wrote a novel instead. Ironically, I never enjoyed...
An Interview with Harry Wentworth of Blind Tribute
I have been fortunate, until most recently, to work under one of the most well-known journalists of our time, P.H. Wentworth III—Harry to his...
Cutting Setting
I had a favorite prof once who used to say (to paraphrase), “You are either great at setting or at plot and your first draft will be heavy in your...
The inspiration for Harry
My great-great uncle, (Percy to friends and family, P.H. to readers) was rather a giant of a man in the world of letters, and was the inspiration...
End with the Beginning in Mind…
So, as it happens, this week, we are preparing for the Paper Lantern Writers to attend the The History Quill Writers Convention 2022*, and the panel...
Happiness is… Sometimes Hard to Find
As a person who suffers from clinical depression and a host of complex trauma, and whose family life is severely limited by choice and necessity,...
Unmasking a Man from my Distant Past
When I started writing Blind Tribute, the only piece of the manuscript I had was a mental picture of my great-great uncle, Percy Huntington (P.H.)...
A Pumpkin Bread Tradition
PUMPKIN BREAD COMBINE: 2 ½ CUPS BROWN SUGAR 1 CUP OIL 2/3 CUP WATER 4 EGGS 2 CUPS PUMPKIN (FRESH COOKED AND MASHED OR CANNED) SIFT AND ADD: ½ TSP...
Summer Reading by Default…
To be perfectly honest, I’ve never understood the concept of “summer reading,” because my reading habits and choices don’t change with the seasons....
Judging a Cover By Its Book
A couple of years after publication of my novel, Blind Tribute, I found myself not judging the book by its cover, but rather judging the cover by...
Treading Water – A Year of Writing in Place
The past year of the pandemic has been like treading water. Staying “in place” has applied in many areas of my life, writing included. My job is...
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