on August 31, 2020
As thrilled as I am with Fanny Newcomb’s new cover, I’m equally thrilled with the back cover–both the art work and the blurbs. Check this out: FANNY NEWCOMB & THE IRISH CHANNEL RIPPER is a ripping good read. Author Ana Brazil brings the dark underbelly of Gilded Age New Orleans vividly to life as her… Read More
on August 30, 2020
Yep, Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper has a new cover. But W-H-Y? Here’s what I told fellow crime novelist Vinnie Hansen when she interviewed me for the Sisters in Crime NorCal newsletter earlier this year: “Last June I was at the Historical Novel Society Conference and saw my book on sale next to… Read More
on August 29, 2020
As you can see from my homepage (and from my FB Banner and elsewhere), Fanny Newcomb has changed! Yep, the cover of FANNY NEWCOMB & THE IRISH CHANNEL RIPPER has definitely changed. Gone are the drops of blood and the photographs of Gilded Age prostitutes. Gone is the back cover copy proclaiming “Gilded Age New… Read More
on August 25, 2020
As you might know, I’m a big fan of postcards. The older the better! Since I can’t go on my much-wished-for-first-vacation-to-Copenhagen this year, I took a short, refreshing visual side-trip by browsing through my Danish grandmother’s collection of postcards. Dating from the early 1900’s, these postcards feature beautiful photographs of Copenhagen (København) and other locales… Read More
on August 19, 2020
It’s a BOOK CLUB! Virtual, of course! My girls, the Paper Lantern Writers, have started PAPER LANTERN WRITERS READ! where we’ll share…the books we are reading and want to read. Join us!
on August 17, 2020
Would you take up boxing to research your Regency Historical? Paper Lantern Writer Katie Stein (aka Edie Cay) did! Find out more in this YouTube interview. A LADY’S REVENGE The Paper Lantern Writers are a collective of Historical Fiction Writers, both published and unpublished. Our goal is to tell a cracking good story, using… Read More
on August 14, 2020
Ever wonder how American women got the right to vote? Check out my Links Essay on PaperLanternWriters.com! I’m sharing links to women’s suffrage archives, exhibits celebrating the 19th Amendment, women’s suffrage artifacts, and LOTS MORE!
on July 24, 2020
Now on PaperLanternWriters, it’s Friday Wordsmith: Regency Romance Spymaster, Author Elizabeth Cole. As Katie Stine (aka Regency Romance author Edie Cay) shares… “In our first Friday interview for our new Friday Wordsmith series, we’ve thrown some questions at historical romance author Elizabeth Cole. Ms. Cole is the author of the Regency spy series Secrets of… Read More
on July 11, 2020
Yesterday’s links essay on Paper Lantern Writers featured some great quotes about photography, including this one: “There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.” – President Abraham Lincoln There were, in fact, so many great quotes about photography and being photographed that I couldn’t used them all. But I would like… Read More
on July 9, 2020
“May I secure your likeness?” is a quaint, mid-19th century way to ask if you can take someone’s photograph. It’s also the name of my first Links Essay for Paper Lantern Writers. GREAT links in this essay for readers, writers, & historians. I hope you enjoy them.