Sara Poole's historical thriller The Borgia Betrayal begins with a poisoning, not an uncommon occurrence during the deadly power games ...

Thanks to whoever chose to nominate this site for "best historical fiction blog" in the Book Blogger Appreciation Week annual awar...

I've been getting a lot of visitors to my first visual preview of Canadian historical fiction so decided to do a followup.  Most of the...

Karleen Koen’s lush and literary fourth novel takes place over the six-month period, March through September 1661, when Louis XIV of France ...

I'm so pleased to present this guest post from Elisabeth Storrs, whose excellent historical novel of ancient Etruria, The Wedding Shroud...

Today author Nancy Means Wright is visiting the blog to discuss the historical practice of primogeniture -- in particular as it figured in t...

It's been well over a year since my last entry in the Reviews of Obscure Books series, so I figured it was about time for a new one.  T...

Lynn Sheene takes risks with her heroine, Claire Harris Stone, by making her a gold-digging Manhattan socialite.  In May 1940, with the worl...

Get ready for the unexpected when you pick up this offbeat, incredibly enjoyable novel, which will transport you on a memorable journey thro...

You'll find Sonia Gensler's The Revenant shelved in the Teen Paranormal Romance section at your local bookstore.  However, it has f...

Santa Montefiore’s novels combine gorgeously rendered settings, touching romance, and characters facing real world issues such as societal p...

A quick note to announce the winners of the Moon in Leo ebook - congratulations to Melissa and Sarah, the other librarian!  I'll be ...

Today Stewart Binns is visiting the blog to respond to some questions about his new novel Conquest , fast-paced adventure fiction about Here...

Jacqueline Winspear’s eighth Maisie Dobbs mystery demonstrates the truth spoken by one of her characters: “One always has riches when one ha...

First, a disclosure: a quote of mine, based on my reading of Kathleen Herbert’s Dark Ages trilogy from the mid-'80s, is printed on the b...

Longtime blog readers may remember my high praise for Jude Morgan's The Taste of Sorrow , a masterful work about the Brontës.  One of th...

With historical settings ranging from ancient Greece to Tudor England to 17th-century France to 19th-century India, here are some personal p...

I'd like to welcome Eileen Clymer Schwab to the blog today.  In the following post, she discusses what inspires her to write about a tum...

Frances McNamara’s follow-up to Death at Hull House sees her enterprising young protagonist, former university student Emily Cabot, involve...

I feel I should be writing more about the Historical Novel Society conference, which was wonderful - thanks so much to all of the speakers, ...