CHAPTER SIX The morning dawned with a muggy heaviness. Sweat gathered under the iron bracelets on Andrew’s wrists, stinging in the open sores they’d rubbed. A length of chain no more than two feet in length ran between the irons on his ankles. His hair, dank and matted, hung in Read more…
High on a Mountain is a historical novel not only of Scotland but of the roots and beginnings of the Scottish American community. Millions of us in the US grew from these roots, and yet, they are too little understood and known. First, I’ll just say as someone who is Read more…
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Accomplished in Murder is a charming and well-written historical mystery set in Victorian England. It begins with the recently wed Celeste writing to her friend Druscilla Winterbourne to say that only if Druscilla joins her in Cornwall will Celeste feel safe. However, when Druscilla arrives, her dear friend has died Read more…
In Moore’s Cartier’s Ring, twelve-year old Myeerah has been raised since birth in a tribe not her own. When members of her birth tribe arrive to re-claim her, dangerous negotiations between the tribes threaten to separate her from everyone she loves. However, the arrival of French explorers brings about events Read more…
Now I come to the contradictory part and my final rule for writing historical fiction. You have to know the details; you should know them so well that you could walk down a street in your time-period and fit right in. You have to show the customs, which means you Read more…
We live in a different age than most of our characters. Judging or condemning someone because of their gender, their sexual orientation, their religion, or their color is wrong in our time. Our characters lived in a different time. Don’t judge them for that and do not force them to Read more…
I’m going to do a short series on my own rules for writing historical fiction. Now these are my rules. I obviously can’t and won’t try to force them on anyone else. In at least one case, I wish I could. The one that absolutely infuriates me when it is Read more…