One of my great pleasures as a professor of American literature was to conduct field research. You might know it better as sightseeing. In preparation for classes, I would visit the locales...
We're pleased as punch to have sci-fi author P.D. Alleva with us today.
Any weird things you do when you’re alone?
Sing really loud and really bad. I love to sing, unfortunately, there hasn’t...
I’m envious of those individuals who discovered a passion for writing when they were young. My muse didn’t come a knockin’ until the last quarter of my life. That’s not completely true....
There’s a lot that can be said about books, in general, to escape the current times we face. But there’s something about paranormal books that give it an edge. Of course, this...
Before I went to grad school, I had some hazy, romanticized notions about the Victorian era, involving exquisite dresses, delicate teacups, elegant balls, and touches of the hand that were charged with...
We are thrilled to have author, Daniella Bernett, author of the popular Emmeline Kirby & Gregory Longdon Mysteries with us today to answer our Thriller Thursdays With... Questions. So, without further ado,...
Oh, Cruel is the snow that sweeps Glen Coe…*
Glen Coe, the place where MacDonalds were massacred on orders of King William by the Campbells in 1692, is approximately twenty miles—as the crow...
Although not even a century ago, the 1930s might as well have been a millennium in regards to family planning and birth control. Very little contraception existed, not even pills, IUDs or...
Writing a humorous mystery using a campaign for Congress is a bit tricky. First, I didn’t want to portray a specific political party in a negative light, even though it’s clear from...
Thank you for joining me on the Where Angels Can’t Follow blog tour. I have always loved books that had unique chapter headings. As an author, when I write the chapters out,...
We were sitting in my mother’s condo, reviewing old notebooks from a box of family papers. Suddenly my mom tossed me a small booklet.
“I don’t know if this is important or not,...
I guess I should start with the fact that I was born in Russia. I lived in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) until I was thirteen and a half. I came to America...