review: Born to the Badge
Born to the Badge by Mark Warren This is the second installment of Warren’s fiction trilogy based on the life of Wyatt Earp (read my […]
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review: Adobe Moon
Adobe Moon: Wyatt Earp, an American Odyssey by Mark Warren The first in Mark Warren’s Wyatt Earp trilogy, Adobe Moon opens with a young Wyatt […]
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At the Far End of Nowhere by Christine Davis Merriman
This book came to my attention and I thought I would share it as it sounds like an interesting and unusual historical setting. I’ve been […]
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review: Sovrin’s Star
Sovrin’s Star Mississippi Connection, Book 1 by John Reyer Afamasaga www.johnreyerafamasaga.org This historical novella follows two unique characters through the post-Civil War South–a crippled orphan […]
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guest post: Terrence McCauley on the history behind The Fairfax Incident
I had several reasons for setting THE FAIRFAX INCIDENT in 1933 New York City. The first reason is that I love history in general and […]
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review: Bonnie & Clyde : Dam Nation
Bonnie & Clyde: Dam Nation Book 2 by Clark Hays & Kathleen McFall In this second installment of Hays & McFall’s Bonnie & Clyde series, […]
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review: While You Were Mine
While You Were Mine by Ann Howard Creel This story opens upon the protagonist, nurse Gwen Mullen, finding herself the subject of the famous LIFE […]
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review: The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Esther Greenwood is a promising, young college student from Boston who had been given the chance to gain real […]
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guest post: John Nuckel on a Chance Meeting with Teddy Wilson
One of the most important events in American music happened at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1938. There was a Benny Goodman concert that night. […]
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guest post: Fiction and History in Richard Buxton’s Whirligig – A writer’s choice
I decided to base Whirligig, my novel set in the American Civil War, largely in Tennessee and Georgia. The battles around Chattanooga were interesting to […]
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review: Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America
Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America by Teri Kanefield Alexander Hamilton is much in the news lately, particularly with the Broadway play in such demand, […]
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review: A Wilder Rose
A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series has been a staple in children’s literature for decades, […]
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