IN MY PREVIOUS post, 'History's Long Shadow on the Land,' I revealed my passion for historical fiction — especially that which covers the period from 1485 to 1714. Of all the chapters in England’s past, none grip my imagination quite like the Tudor and Stuart centuries. It was a time when England was reborn through …
A Window on the Past I HAVE REVEALED in previous posts my love of historical fiction―especially that set in the Tudor and Stewart period (1485-1714). When written with authority and grounded in solid research, historical fiction can act as a richly textured window onto the past by animating facts with lived experience. While it does …
Ever since I discovered the joy of novels at an early age, my bookshelves have been a sort of gentleman’s club. Not through sexism or prejudice — I just figured men wrote in a style I was most comfortable with. One glance at my book collection will show that I like a literary diet of …
RAVEN MOON 