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

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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!

I’m celebrating International Women’s History Month with this PLW Blast from the Past Link List: …help Mrs. Thomas Catt with her ‘Rats’ If you’re at all interested in the struggle for women’s suffrage in America, this is your list!  

Literary Success! Is it one big elusive goal, or a single, simple appreciation? Find out what historical novelists C. V. Lee, Jonathan Posner, Jillianne Hamilton, Anne M. Beggs, and I consider Literary Success on today’s Paper Lantern Writers blog.

Thanks to everyone who attended the BOOK LAUNCH panel at yesterday’s THE HISTORY QUILL Convention! I had a few glitches with my ZOOM connection (grrrrrrrrr….) but Linda, Jonathan, and Alina stepped up to make sure you got all the content we prepared. I hope you got some ideas to ease you through your next book… Read More

Today on the Paper Lantern Writers’ blog, I’m sharing news about my upcoming November 2024 release THE MAGNOLIA VOODOO BRAWLER. BRAWLER plops my red-hot blues chanteuse and amateur sleuth Viola Vermillion into a murder in 1919 jazz-crazy New Orleans. And since Viola’s character was inspired by real-life vaudeville chanteuse Elsie Clark, can you guess who… Read More