Guest Blogger: Keta Diablo

Tell us a little about Land of the Falling Stars.
The brain-child for Land of Falling Stars came about shortly after I read a true-life story about cousins who fought on opposites during the Civil War. It was more common than what people might think. Often a thin county line separated families; one side sympathizing with [...]

Keep Feeding Your Muse

I’ve been writing fiction for many years and have finally come to the conclusion that to keep my creativity flowing, I have to work on several projects at one time.
And now that I’ve had the happy experience of being under contract, it’s even more imperative that I work on more than one project at a [...]

Historic April

In keeping with my current research topic, I was planning to talk a little bit today about female Civil War spies and how their courage and resolve helped shape the outcome of the Civil War. But my muse refuses to cooperate (hopefully it will be more accommodating next time around.)
Hoping to inspire a blog, [...]

Women in Medicine in 1870

The first generation of women medical students faced an uphill battle, only fierce determination and ultimate competence—in other words, they had to be better than any of their male counterparts—could get them a foot in the door.
In 1870, 525 trained women physicians existed in America, far more than in most of the world combined. Most [...]

Online Marketing

What I learned about writing and the internet in the past month. I was going to add ‘and how it’s changed my life’ but that sounded more than slightly melodramatic so I’ll just list a few things I’ve learned in March about the e-pub world and how it’s changed my perspective on things.

Everyone’s got a [...]

And the winner is. . .

For our Birthday basket, Angie Cameron!  Hey Angie, if you can send me your snail mail address at victorianromance@comcast.net I’ll send it on out to you!
Thanks everyone for coming to visit.  Hope you all will keep stopping in from time to time!

Beermann’s Beerwerks Ghostly Haunts

If the walls of Beermann’s Beerwerks and Meat Market (Lincoln, California) could talk, you would no doubt hear stories of fortunes made and lost.  Echoes of socialites and scoundrels whisper through the halls, painting a colorful and odd history of those who gathered there over the past 140 years.  They came for gold, clay, cattle, [...]