The 2021 Historical Novel Society Conference is over, and the Paper Lantern Writers have barely had time to take a breath. The conference was...
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The Romance of Marketing
When I first started actively pursuing my dream of being a full-time fiction...
Final Thoughts on the HNS Conference
The Historical Novel Society Conference was a busy, thrilling week. The Paper Lantern Writers would like to share with you a few of the sessions we...
Things We’ve Recently Learned from Books
In order to write historical fiction, a writer must know or research many things from different eras—architectural and landscape features, clothing,...
The Hidden History of Women’s Boxing
If you do a casual google of women’s boxing, most articles will lead you to believe that women’s boxing didn’t come about until the late 1990s—after...
Goodbye 2020 and Welcome 2021!
Two years ago, several members of the Historical Novel Society: Northern California attended the organization’s annual conference. One of the...
Cooking with Too Much Heart: Me and Paul Hollywood
A cookbook can be both an impersonal tome and an intimate peek into a family...
What is Jólabókaflóð?
What is jólabókaflóð? Honestly, the first time I saw jólabókaflóð, I thought is was either some kind of acronym, or someone’s two-year-old had...
Bump in the Night in Old New Orleans
Can I share a secret with you? New Orleans scares me. It’s not just the hurricanes and the street hustlers and the heat-that-takes-my-breath-away....
June 5th ~ Q & As
Studying history provides us with a deeper understanding of current events, showing us that the nature of man hasn't changed much over the...
Christmas in Hawai’i
With my novel, The Aloha Spirit, coming out next August, my thoughts are in Hawai’i this holiday season. Before Christianity came to the Hawai’ian...
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