Tag: history
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Quarantined with Creativity
2020 certainly has been a banner year, although I can’t quite pinpoint what the headline should say. I believe the universal theme has been CHANGE. Our world is radically different now than in most of our lifetimes. It’s difficult to imagine us ever really going back to the “old world,” the way things used to…
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Ghost Stories & Romance: Why the Combination is So Compelling
While conversing with a saleswoman in my local Apple store recently, I shared the information that I wrote novels. “What kind of novels?” she asked. “They’re basically romances, but they are all set in haunted places,” I replied. Her eyes grew wide. “With ghosts, you mean?” “Yes. There’s always a ghost story intertwined with the…
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Book Review: “The Bog People – Iron-Age Man Preserved” by P.V. Glob
Unusual material and far from a new release, I just finished reading this title as part of the research for my upcoming novel, TimePeace. The book was originally published in 1969, and is not even available in digital format–I had to borrow it via inter-library loan. Outdated material, you say? Well, not when you consider…
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Island of the Dead
Hart Island, a sliver of land in Long Island Sound in New York, is eroding away. Nature reclaims its own, right? What’s heartbreaking–and eerie as hell–about the natural reclamation of this particular island into the sea? The fact that along with the dirt and sand, the ocean is reclaiming the remains of the dead buried…
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Some Spooky Alabama History
Since my latest release, CIVIL HEARTS, is set in rural, western Alabama, I naturally have done quite a bit of research on the region. Aside from all the antebellum mansions that have survived, some in better condition than others, there are other potentially haunted locations. The Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge in Livingston, Alabama is one such…
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