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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Review of Elinor Florence's Finding Flora, a #1 Canadian bestseller about a woman's pioneer homesteading life

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For anyone wanting to lose themselves in a big-hearted historical novel, this is your book. The pace never flags from the first sentence, as...
Monday, November 10, 2025

In remembrance of Christopher (C.W.) Gortner

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I wanted to write a post about Christopher (C. W.) Gortner, who passed away suddenly on October 25th, 2025, to the shock and sorrow of the l...
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Monday, November 03, 2025

Interview with Susan Coventry, author of the biographical novel Till Taught By Pain

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Within historical fiction, Susan Coventry's Till Taught By Pain  offers something unique: the little-known story of an accomplished and ...
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Friday, October 24, 2025

Kelly J. Goshorn's The Undercover Heiress of Brockton, set in 1905 Massachusetts, evokes strength and love amidst tragic events

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In 1905 Brockton, Massachusetts, Miss Henrietta Maxwell is a busy, eccentric young woman. The tall, bespectacled daughter of a self-made Bos...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Historical fiction preview for winter 2026

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Looking ahead to the upcoming season, here are a dozen historical novels that caught my attention. The award-winning Indian author's s...
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Friday, October 10, 2025

A woman alone: Allegra Goodman's Isola

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Allegra Goodman’s newest novel shows how life as a young 16th-century noblewoman offers no guarantees. Not a life of wealth, not a prosperou...
Tuesday, October 07, 2025

A Different Kind of Three-Act Structure: Writing my Main Character as a Child, a Young Woman, and an Elderly Grandmother, an essay by Kristen Loesch

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I'm glad to be featuring Kristen Loesch here today with an essay on a unique variation of the multi-period novel.  Her second work of hi...