SHIMMERS IN THE DARKNESS

Knopf’s Poems of Paris , from the publisher’s Everyman’s Library Pocket Series, was a nice companion to Mantel’s sometimes-overwhelmi...

Here’s a thing that happens to me when I read historical fiction. If the characters are well-written, I get invested, maybe even deve...

Hilary Mantel’s historical novel, A Place of Greater Safety, takes place during the French Revolution, and it tells the sweeping story...

(photo credit: quarantine paint-by-number, Satchel White, Mary White) Let’s face it. We’ve all been locked down and dreaming of trav...

A couple of weeks ago, I finished the first draft of a YA book I didn’t intend to write and so, it comes as no surprise to me that th...