The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England: 1485-1649 by Kathy Lynn Emerson is a highly useful tool for anyone writing fiction set in that time period. It doesn’t directly relate to what I’m working on right now, but it …
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I wrote a guest post for the Shadowspinners blog the other day. Those of you who’ve been following me for a while might recognize some of my ongoing issues with Janna. 🙂 Let’s face it- bad girls are a lot …
I grew up listening to classical music, and even though my tastes have branched out significantly, it remains my first love. I particularly adore the romantic composers from the mid-to-late 19th century. One of my absolute faves is Antonin Dvorak, …
While I’ve enjoyed many books in my lifetime, there are only a handful that really grab me and don’t let go. Wolf Hall, and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, belong to the latter category. Friends who know my reading …
This is another sort-of reblog of a post from days long past. The original had some inaccuracies I now know enough to correct. Thankfully, hardly anyone saw it- one of the advantages of blogging in obscurity. As some- or maybe …
I swear this is not a book review blog. At least that’s not the only thing it is. I’ve just been doing a bit of reading lately. I tend to read fast, and multiple books at once, so things get …
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Simplicius Simplicissimus is considered the first German adventure novel and published around 1669. It’s still assigned reading for German schoolchildren and considered an important text for anyone interested in Germany during the Thirty Years War. Subtitled, “The life of an odd …
Okay, I realize that there are still another nineteen hours or so left for Camp NaNoWriMo in my time zone, but I don’t know how much more I’ll write before midnight. Lately, I’ve started writing ATÂ midnight, night-owl that I am, …
After reading so much military history, it’s easy to become blase about war. Endless battles, sieges, marches, treaties, mutinies, endless analysis of maneuvers both political and military. And even though I’m studying one of the more horrific events in history, …
Hey look! I’m reviewing an actual fiction book. Â Since I’ve been writing so much, it’s been very hard for me to read fiction. I seem to be, as Dean Wesley Smith (go read his blog, if you don’t already!) puts …