Tag: historical fiction
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A Viscount’s Vengeance
Author Edie Cay’s Regency Romance series has a new book! Pearl Arthur and Lord Andrepont are back in A Viscount’s Vengeance, and this time they are the stars of the show. Pearl is the sister of the boxer we met in the first book, product of a variety of foster homes and certainly not the…
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Ten Historical Novels Set in Libraries
February is National Library Lover’s Month. I’m a loyal Friend of the Library at my local branch, and I love libraries! It seems fitting, then, to share books that are set in libraries. There are a lot of them, though, so I’ve narrowed it down to ten historical novels set in libraries. Check out these…
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Finding Women’s Voices in Historical Fiction
“Since I was a very small child, I’ve had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.” Hilary Mantel I’ve been channeling this sentiment of Hilary Mantel’s since I was a child, when my grandmother told me stories of our female ancestors, women she revered for their…
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Top Hist Fic Picks January 2023
January is all about new beginnings. Maybe you’re determined to keep this year’s resolutions, or you’re looking forward to a year full of new events. My next novel, The River Remembers, comes out in June, for example. Paper Lantern Writers added nine new members to start 2023! Read about them on our website. So January…
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Christmas in Hawai’i
*This is a post from December 2019, before the release of my novel The Aloha Spirit. With my novel, The Aloha Spirit, coming out next August, my thoughts are in Hawai’i this holiday season. Before Christianity came to the Hawai’ian islands in the 1700s, the Hawai’ians celebrated a four-month tradition called Makahiki, a time when…