Release day!

Today, Northern Roses and Southern Belles is out from The Wild Rose Press in e-book and print. Six authors+Six blogs=Mayhem and Madness. I hope you’ll join us August 1-6 for our blog tour!
Calendar:
Saturday August 1: Isabel Roman is at Night Owl Romance
Sunday August 2: Jeanmarie Hamilton is at Petticoats & Pistols
Monday August 3: Susan Macatee [...]

Guest Blogger: Tanya Hanson

Please help me welcome romance author, Tanya Hanson to Slip into Something Victorian.  Don’t forget to leave a comment, she’ll be giving away an e-copy of her new release,  Marrying Minda.
Tanya, thank you so much for stopping by!  Thanks for inviting me! I’m a regular blogger at the terrific all-western site, Petticoats and Pistols, where [...]

Story props

With only three days left until the official release of Northern Roses and Southern Belles, I wanted to talk about something that has been slowly driving me insane since, oh, about the time I sent back the first round of edits on my story, The Colonial and the Cottontail.
As you might have guessed, my story [...]

Traveling in the mid-nineteenth century -Part II

Last month I covered luggage and this month I’ll be covering modes of transportation for the Victorian traveler.
Transportation advanced in the 19th century through the invention of the railroad for land travel. Also the stream engine made voyages over the sea quicker, but in the century preceding the automobile, aside from rail travel, people were [...]

The Civil War as you’ve never read it!

Our Scandalous Victorian anthology, Northern Roses and Southern Belles is coming out next week!
You can pre-order the print version here, it will also be available as an e-book. For more information, go to our blog.
We’re all really excited about it and have planned a blog tour for August. What’s a blog tour? Basically we’re [...]

Erin’s Rebel is out today!!

My debut romance, Erin’s Rebel, hits the e-book shelves today. And in honor of American Rose month over at The Wild Rose Press, it will be discounted until the end of this month.
Blurb: Philadelphia newspaper reporter, Erin Branigan, is engaged to marry an up-and-coming lawyer, but dreams of a man from the past change those [...]

Civil War Spies

In recent months my research has taken me down some fascinating roads.  I started out researching Civil War spies, in particular those who served the confederacy.  What would make someone risk their life for a cause, not in the brave, bold manner of a solider, but in the covert, dangerous role of spy? What I [...]

Early School Rooms

Most of the schools of the Sierra Mountains in California in the 1800s were crude, inhospitable dwellings within mining camps and other small communities.  They were usually made of logs, or adobe, with earthen floors, plastered walls, and, in some cases, thatched roofs.  Many students sat upon wooden boxes, without desks, or a single desk [...]