I remember the day my daughter first saw the image of Elizabeth Tudor garbed in a breastplate facing down the Spanish Armada.  Kate was fourteen then, and when she read the stirring 'heart and stomach of a king' speech, Kate demanded to know why ...

Pat Rice here: Today, I’d like to introduce Beth Miller, assistant to Robin Rue at Writers House, a literary agency.  She’s gone from a B.S. in biology to an M.A. in literature and has been working with WH since February 2007.  From Beth's bio: “I have a long-standing fascinati...

Pat here: One has to wonder what historians will do in the future in their attempts to piece together how twenty-first century writers wrote their classic tomes (or presidents commanded their triumphs and errors) when everything we do today is by computer and prone to disappearing. Once upon a time ...

Pat here, having forgotten I'm supposed to post today and not Wednesday... I’m drowning in revisions and about to go under, so I’ll grab a question from our readers to expound upon today. The question I chose is obviously a favorite of mine—religion—but we’re coming out it from a different...

Good morning from Sherrie!  Before we announce the winners of the caption contest, please take a moment to mark 6/6 and 6/9 on  your calendars.  Those are the dates of Edith's two-part interview hosted by Mary Jo, in conjunction with the release of Edith's His Dark and Dangerous Ways....

I never promised you a rose garden…  I’m in full research mode these days, thoroughly enjoying digging into books on Bermuda, pirates, book publishing, and politics of the 1790s.  But in the process, I’m also uncovering the dirty underbelly of England that our frothy Regencies and Ge...

    I’m writing this before I head out to the Romantic Times convention--- a week ahead of the posting date, because I won’t be home until the night before I’m supposed to blog.  I won’t be at RT all that time.  Part of it will be spent brainstorming with a couple of the ...

Pat here, rummaging around in Ye Olde Question Box.  I’m still playing with contemporary ideas, researching asthma and Jaguars and other modern terms, so I’m  not in a place to play with historical research blogs.  And unless you want to hear a diatribe about never-ending winter, ...

Wench Pat here: My contribution to our Christmas-lite blog concerns the Christmas tree.  “Everyoneâ€� knows that Christmas trees originated in Germany and became popular in Victorian times, but of course, I couldn’t address the topic without taking a peek at the history.  I won’t tel...