Historical Belles and Beaus

We managed to go away this weekend for a flying visit over the border into deepest Derbyshire. It's a beautiful county if you love littl...

Like many small towns, my hometown has a traditional summer festival that celebrates a unique aspect of American life just for fun. In this ...

Posted by Jen Black, 25th August, 2010 The first book I published was The Banners of Alba , and I'm still very fond of it even though th...

Living at court was expensive for everyone. Henry III demanded high standards of dress from his courtiers. It was a requirement that every g...

This past week several of us had a discussion on trends in reading and therefore, writing. Like many of us I’m a life long reader. How many ...

The diaries of pioneer women are something which I not only collect but also use for research material in writing my own novels, such as Kit...

Today we'll talk about men's clothes in the Regency era, which occurred about two hundred years ago in England. This post is a pri...

Back in mid 20th Century, erotica and erotic romance was hidden in dark bookshops off the main thoroughfare. You wouldn't want to be see...

I started to think about this the other day when, after my muse hiding for a bit over a month, I returned to writing. I'd open up a file...

Deborah Swift: Gabrielle Kimm and I met at an awards ceremony in the UK where our then unpublished books were shortlisted for the Impress P...

In the Uk a new series has started on television. It's all about the Normans, so I thought it appropriate to post an extract from my new...

Satirists christened the reticule - the bag adopted by Regency ladies when their diaphanous dresses allowed no pockets - the ridicule. The r...

Back in the 1950's, it took a certain amount of courage to read historical fiction--not because of what lay between the covers, but beca...

Shakespeare said it best: “Oft expectation fails, and most oft where it most promises…” Thanks to my expectations, I can’t watch Pillars of ...

Like the independent bookshops, small independent book publishers are struggling and some are going under. I hate to see this happen. But w...