The Cookie Hop is Back! Welcome back to our annual Historical Romance Cookie Hop for a chance to win in $150 gift card as well as other fun little prizes along the way! The rules are easy: Hop to each link (posted on 12/4), which will take you to a historical author’s FB page, web…
Interesting History
History, Books, and Wine Runs a Half-Marathon!
History, Books and Wine will run a half marathon! Running a half marathon has been on my bucket list for a long time. After discovering it was a bucket list item for my History, Books and Wine podcast co-hosts Lori Ann Bailey and Eliza Knight as well, we’ve decided to start training for next year’s Disney Princess Half Marathon. Yes, it is…
History, Books and Wine Podcast
History, Wine & Books Podcast I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been working with Lori Ann Bailey and Eliza Knight on putting together a podcast that covers all our favorite things. It’s called History Books and Wine (see? ALL of our favorite things!) We do weekly podcasts where three times a month one of us…
RWA 2018 Overview
I thought you might enjoy those photos from my trip to Denver, Colorado for the 2018 Romance Writers of America National Conference. I had so much fun getting to chat with my fellow authors and also meet readers at the Literacy Signing! The signing raised $38,226 for ProLiteracy Worldwide and the Literacy Coalition of Colorado, which…
Dyeing for a New ‘Do – a Colorful History
Hair dyeing may seem like a modern thing, but you might be surprised how very ancient it is. For centuries, people have been finding ways to follow the hair color trend of the day and dye their way into popularity (or cover a few gray strands). First of all, I found it interesting that only…
Behold the Shield Maiden
This weekend was lost to back-to-back episodes of Vikings. It was one of those kind of things where one episode ends and you tell yourself, “OK, just one more” and next thing you know, you’ve finished all there is to watch. >insert great sadness here at that realization< While I really enjoyed the writing and…