Join the SHINE with Paper Lantern Writers FB group to participate!

Join the SHINE with Paper Lantern Writers FB group to participate (as an author or a reader!) in our FIRST GIVEAWAY on Wednesday May 12th! We’ve already got eighteen authors ready to share their books! You must be a member of SHINE to participate! BIG GIVEAWAY – Wednesday May 12th!

As a founding member of the Paper Lantern Writers Historical Fiction Author Collective (whew! what a long title!) I’m excited to invite you to join SHINE, our new Facebook Group. SHINE is for readers and writers, editors and researchers, and anyone else who loves to talk about books, especially our favorite historical fiction. Here’s the… Read More

Here’s an absolutely GREAT PHOTO that I couldn’t fit into my Fifty Fabulous Online Library Historical Collections post. It’s titled “Bathing Beauty Pageant, 1925, Huntington Beach, CA” and it’s courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Everybody’s doing it…sharing their sheltering-in-place stories. Here’s mine. All Journey, No Destination

In which I share FIFTY FABULOUS links where you can explore just about any time and place in history! Something for everyone on Paper Lantern Writers! Fifty Fabulous Online Library Historical Collections

Thanks, Prose & the Pandemic,  for including me and FANNY NEWCOMB & THE IRISH CHANNEL RIPPER in this event!   !

It’s “hidden history” month over at the Paper Lantern Writers blog, but instead of writing about some hidden history that I’ve uncovered, I wrote about something historic that I’ve kept hidden. And sometimes…what’s hidden stays hidden on Paper Lantern Writers.     Turntable Photo by Luke Chesser on Unsplash.

You might think you know about historical under garments, but do you really? Do you know the difference between stays and corsets, or how to support a bustle, or what a bum roll is? No shame if you don’t; I had no idea what a bum roll was, and now it’s one of my favorite phrases!… Read More

MONDAY FEBRUARY 1ST ONLY! On facebook.com/PaperLanternWriters! To enter, just reply to the comment and answer the question. Entries will be closed tonight at 9:00 p.m. PST Winners will be announced on facebook.com/PaperLanternWriters tomorrow afternoon. Good Luck!