Novels about reincarnation don't take up a large category.  The dual scenarios - past and present - can help these works branch out to...

Thanks to author Michelle Black, I have a new giveaway for readers of the blog.  She will be offering a signed hardcover copy of Séance in S...

For her sixth historical novel, Michelle Black trades the vast landscapes of the historical and modern West for the social reforms and spiri...

Earlier this week I drew the winning entry for Rebecca Johns' The Countess ... and then forgot to post it on the blog.  Oops - pardon my...

Sharyn McCrumb’s series of Ballad novels about the strong-minded residents and the scenic beauty of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains us...

Thanks to the Crown Publishing Group, I have the opportunity to offer a giveaway of Rebecca Johns' The Countess , biographical fiction a...

“It was Yule, 898, and someone was trying to kill me. I would kill them instead.” Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the Saxon-born, Danish-raised war...

Today's guest post from Monika Schröder speaks to the historical background of her novel My Brother's Shadow , reviewed here on Tue...

In her young adult novel My Brother’s Shadow , Monika Schröder creates a starkly realistic vision of Berlin at the end of World War I. In ...

The Langum Charitable Trust, sponsor of the annual Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction, has announced a change in procedure.  They ...

This post is thanks to Marg because in the comments for one of my recent posts, she told me about FishpondWorld , an online Aussie bookstor...

Elle Newmark's The Sandalwood Tree is an engrossing novel set during two pivotal periods in the history of colonial India. Evie Mitch...

I'll be posting more later today or tomorrow, but for now -- I've just drawn the winner of Sara Poole's The Borgia Betrayal , wi...

In her modern Gothic mystery, her first novel to be published in America, Deborah Lawrenson plunges readers into the atmosphere of rural Pro...

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...