It’s my turn to host the Paper Lantern Writers Book of the Month! As you’ve probably guessed, I’m an ardent historical mystery and suspense reader, and I enjoy finding a series and sticking with it. But reading debut authors? Not so much. (Except for some of the authors I’ve found through Paper Lantern Readers, of… Read More

Once more I’m excited to participate in the Paper Lantern Writer’s BookFunnel Giveaway, and for one month only, FANNY NEWCOMB & THE IRISH CHANNEL RIPPER is available for download for free. So if you’re intrigued about smart female Southern sleuths in Gilded Age New Orleans just click here…. And whether you love, hate, or are… Read More

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?

Just like that most elegant swellegant Broadway bon vivant Cole Porter wrote back in 1930, I Happen to Like New York. And since I like New York and I love historical fiction, it seemed about time to share some favorite New York City Historical Fiction. Wanna see the entire blog? Here’s the link to the… 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

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!