Paper Lantern Writers

on July 19, 2024

Literary Crushes! All readers have them, am I right? Now that I’ve shared mine in today’s PLW’s Q&A, how ’bout you share yours?


Happy Birthday to July’s Historical Fiction Authors!

on July 1, 2024

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?


Historical Fiction Update: Paper Lantern Writers Beginnings…

on June 22, 2024

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


70+ Free Historical Fiction ePubs

on June 14, 2024

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


Ana Interviews Historical Fiction Author Kathryn Pritchett

on May 8, 2024

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!


Hidden History: Time Team and Beyond!

on April 23, 2024

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?