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Showing posts with label What Surprised Me. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What Surprised Me. Show all posts
30 June 2010

What Surprised Me: Scotland is a Different Country

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By Blythe Gifford Even those of us who study history regularly have our blind spots. Scotland was one of mine. Until I started researching f...
29 June 2010

What Surprised Me: Don't Know Much About History

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By Delia DeLeest I've always been a history buff. When I was little, my favorite TV show was "Little House on the Prairie." My...
28 June 2010

What Surprised Me: My Heroine

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By Jennifer Linforth I am not autistic. I met a critique partner of mine, an expert in the field of Aspergers, because I was blogging on an...
23 June 2010

What Surprised Me: Unreliable Sources

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By Zoe Archer One of the reasons I love writing unusual historical romance is the opportunity to do research. Most sane people don't re...
22 June 2010

What Surprised Me: Plotting, Pantsing and Puzzling

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By Anna C. Bowling When I first started creating my own stories, I didn't know any techniques. Then as I started to learn more about wri...
16 June 2010

What Surprised Me: Ancient & Medieval Prostitution

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By Lisa Yarde Prostitution has existed for so long that it's often call the world's oldest profession. The sale of sexual services i...
15 June 2010

What Surprised Me: The World of My Fantasies

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By Jeannie Lin While researching some of the locations in my stories, I followed a Google link for Yumen Guan (Jade Gate fortress). All of t...
14 June 2010

What Surprised Me: Bathrooms, Gambling & Weddings

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By Jacquie Rogers We in the modern West have many notions, often promulgated by novels, movies, and television, that simply aren't accur...
09 June 2010

What Surprised Me: High Society Campaigners

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By Michelle Styles When doing research for upcoming books, I happened to read a biography of Gertrude Bell. The biography managed to turn se...
08 June 2010

What Surprised Me: Picacho Peak

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By Lorelie Brown Mention the US Civil War and I pretty much think of the Eastern Seaboard. South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi. You know,...
07 June 2010

What Surprised Me: Mourning in Austria

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By Carrie Lofty One of the standard conventions of historical romances revolves around a widow in mourning who falls in love with a new man,...
02 June 2010

What Surprised Me: People Don't Read Historicals?

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By Isabel Roman What surprises me? The fact that there are so many people who don't know about the historicals we write! Let's face ...
01 June 2010

What Surprised Me: Witchcraft and Royalty

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By Margaret Mallory Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood, I would remove these tedious stumbling-blocks And smooth my way upon their head...