If it’s the first of the month (or there about), that must mean…it’s time for free historical fiction! So skip on over to Bookfunnel for Paper Lantern Writers‘ monthly historical fiction giveaway! This month’s giveaway features 26 novels and short stories, including my own short story Trust No One, where, in World War II Washington,… Read More

Here’s a little July Birthday Celebration I put together for Paper Lantern Writers. How many of these historical fiction authors have you read? Or, to be entirely honest, how many tv shows or films based on their works have you seen?

Five years ago TODAY, Linda Ulleseit, Kathryn Pritchett, and I attended the HISTORICAL AUTHORS UNITE! ALL ABOUT AUTHOR MARKETING COLLECTIVES session at the Historical Novel Conference in Baltimore. It was heady stuff…hearing authors of the Tall Poppy Writers collective discuss how they amped up their individual book promotion efforts by combining their social media reach…. Read More

As Jillianne Hamilton shares in this week’s PLW Q&A: “All readers adore characters with appealing traits: bravery, determination, intelligent, wit, generosity or charm. However, to make a character fully real and believable, authors must give their characters flaws. It’s their flaws that can actually make a character the most interesting and relatable. The right combination… Read More

For almost a year, Paper Lantern Writers (and specifically our Tudor-era author Jonathan Posner) has been hosting a monthly historical fiction giveaway on Bookfunnel. This June the giveaway includes over SEVENTY free novels, novellas, and short stories! We’ve got World War II, the Elizabethan Era, and the Gilded Age covered! We’ve also got mysteries, romances,… Read More

Fellow historical author Kathryn Pritchett was kind enough to ask me a few questions recently. And here are my answers….  

And away we go!

I had the pleasure of interviewing my friend and fellow writer Kathryn Pritchett recently, and we talked about reading, writing, the American West, and so. much. more. Read all about it on the Paper Lantern Writers blog!

Perhaps the very best thing about hidden history is that it’s being revealed all the time! In today’s PLW blog, I’m sharing both an old hidden history favorite and some of the latest reveals. Ancient Pompeian frescos, anyone?

On today’s PLW Q&A, Jonathan Posner, Alina Rubin, Vanitha Sankaran, and Anne Beggs and I all share our fav international (aka non-American) fascinating woman in history. These women are really something!