It’s November and that means a new short story anthology from Paper Lantern Writers! For lovers of historical fiction who understand that the...
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Today is my thirtieth wedding anniversary, and what a marriage it’s been. Full of camaraderie, communication, and, of course, challenges. We might...
Finding My Historical Passions ~ by Guest Blogger Jackie Lapin
Happy Halloween and welcome to PLW's October Fifth Friday. Today's guest blogger is Jackie Lapin, the mastermind of The Historic Traveler, which...
Abigail’s Necklace in the City of the Tsars
Abigail’s Necklace was my first attempt at writing a historical fiction short story. Crafting a great short story is more difficult than writing a...
Words with a Wordsmith: Simon Tolkien
Welcome to PLW's Words with a Wordsmith Friday! Today we interview Simon Tolkien, author of the historical novels The Room of Lost Steps and The...
The History Behind “A House of Salt”
In our newest anthology, Echoes of Small Things, the Paper Lantern Writers shoes to look at how small acts can ripples through echoes and change the...
What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor? Do any of your Historical Fiction characters have a substance abuse problem?
What do You do with a Drunken Sailor, early in the morning? This may be a humorous sea shanty, but there are consequences for overindulging. The use...
The Origin Story of Cezanne’s Basket of Apples
As storytellers steeped in history, the Paper Lantern Writers know that even the smallest of things—a glance, a word, a touch—can echo through time...
Pulitzer Prize-winning Historical Fiction
Although I have yet to read Percival Everett’s James, I’m totally intrigued by the premise. Set in the antebellum America South, James is a...
Behind-the-Scenes of “The Lady Ranger of Yosemite”
The Horse Girl “The Lady Ranger of Yosemite” is the first time I’ve written a protagonist based on a real person. I cut my teeth on literary fiction...
Top Picks Historical Fiction October 2025
October is really the beginning of Fall, the beginning of cozy nights by the fire, crisp mornings, and walking through piles of fallen leaves. It’s...
My Bookshelf – from Medieval to the 50s
I am a firm believer that a bookshelf should be eclectic. Lots of different genres, and for historical fiction, lots of different eras ('Eras' is...
Words with a Wordsmith: Michelle Cox
Are there TV shows or films that have influenced your writing? Tons! I love all period dramas,...
Bookshelf Confessions of a Wannabe Minimalist
What remains on my bookshelves are the books most important to me. So what is left after all my purging?
Are Anniversaries Celebrated in Your Historical Fiction?
Anniversaries – the date on which an event took place in a previous year. History is full of anniversaries spanning the globe from deaths....
Welcome to My Bookshelf Tour
Welcome Book Lovers! We love books, and if we keep books, we need the means to store, display, and return to them. Before the digital age that meant...
14 Links to Creative Bookshelves and Displays
Welcome Book Lovers! Bookshelf Tours is our blogging theme for September, and what better topic for Link Lists than Bookshelves. With all our books...
What I’m Reading During My Third Bout With COVID
I once lived in a house with many linear feet of built-in bookshelves. This is not that house. When we downsized a decade ago, I focused on the...
Top Historical Fiction Picks September 2025
This month I’m celebrating the first birthday of my seventh novel! Innocents at Home is heritage fiction, based on two ancestors of mine who were on...
Welcome to Ana Brazil’s Bookshelf Tour!
Hello, September! Even though we've had a very mild summer in the San Francisco Bay Area (we were stuck in the mid-60's for weeks), it's always...
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