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Welcome to Day 4 of the quote-a-day countdown giveaway, to celebrate the November 1st release of Beloved and Unseemly. To learn more about the lady professor’s adventures in book #5, along with details of the contest and prizes, click here: You mystery fans are going to like today’s quote: …because it wouldn’t be a…
Welcome to Day 3 of the quote-a-day countdown giveaway, to celebrate the November 1st release of Beloved and Unseemly. To learn more about the contest and prizes, along with what the lady professor is up to in book #5, click here: Okie dokie then, here’s today’s quote! Hope your weekend is going well, and thanks for…
Welcome to Day 2 of the quote-a-day countdown giveaway, to celebrate the November 1st release of Beloved and Unseemly. To learn more about the contest and prizes, along with what the lady professor is up to in book #5, click here: So here you go, the Day 2 quote from Beloved and Unseemly: Happy Weekend, everyone,…
Only twelve more days until Beloved and Unseemly, book 5 of the Concordia Wells Mysteries, is released! A stolen blueprint, a dead body, and wedding bells…. Change is in the air at Hartford Women’s College in the fall of 1898. Renowned inventor Peter Sanbourne—working on Project Blue Arrow for the Navy—heads the school’s new engineering…
In writing about the world of Concordia Wells, I have to make sure the lady professor and her colleagues are always suitably attired in the style of the day. I use a variety of sources for descriptions and sketches of what these ladies wore during the Progressive Era. Two of my favorite books for research…
Hello! Six weeks ago, I announced a flash fiction giveaway offer (described in the link below), based on the last line of an 1891 newspaper article: If you meet a party of eight young men with a barber pole, don’t arrest them. They own it. The challenge was to write a short-short account of what…
Hi everyone! I’ve decided to start off 2016 with something fun and interactive. You all read my stories (thank you!); now I’d love the chance to read yours. As you may know, much of my primary research comes from the 19th century newspaper archive, Chronicling America. I often stumble upon fun little gems that I didn’t…
…and you thought folks were prudish in the 19th century. Ah, the magic of mistletoe. For the young, and the young at heart. Go, Grandma! Careful who you kiss under the mistletoe, however: Was he letting people kiss his wife so he’d have an excuse to kiss the girl? Hmm. Mistletoe was a…
