Tag: history

• AUTHOR WEDNESDAY – LORI CRANE

  

  She’s back! One of my favorite authors and a dear colleague and friend, Lori Crane (click here for previous interview) visits Author Wednesday to tell us about her new release, I, John Culpepper. Lori is quite popular and famous for her works of historical fiction, and this book is no exception. Here she is to tell us […]

  P. C. Zick

  April 29, 2015

  Author Wednesday, Ramblings of a Writer

  ancestors, bestselling author, collective history, Culpepper Saga, Culpeppers, Elly Hays, England, England Civil War, historical fiction, history, Indie Author, John Culpepper, Lori Crane

• Book Review Friday – Unexpected Gifts

  Unexpected Gifts by S.R. Mallery lives up to its name. And the wrapping on that gift peels off layer after layer until the final beautiful gift reveals itself. The book takes the reader on a journey through one young woman’s legacy left by her ancestors. Sonia feels adrift in her life as she continues her […]

  P. C. Zick

  December 6, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  depression, Detroit, history, twentieth century, Vietnam, women’s suffrage, Woodstock

• Author Wednesday – David Lawlor

  Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today I interview David Lawlor, the author of two historical novels published as eBooks. Tan is set during the Irish War of Independence, and its sequel, The Golden Grave,  is set in the old battlefields of WWI. Welcome to Author Wednesday, David. I love something I read about the writer and scientist Rachel Carson […]

  P. C. Zick

  July 17, 2013

  Author Wednesday, Ramblings of a Writer

  amazon.com, authors, bunkers, characters, e-book, fiction, Flanders, historical ficiton, history, novels, publishing, soldiers, war, writers, writing, WWI

• Book Review Friday – In the Time of the Butterflies

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Book Description from Amazon: It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth […]

  P. C. Zick

  March 15, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, characters, dictatorship, Dominican Republic, fiction, history, Julia Alvarez, point of view, Selma Hayek, Trujillo

• Weaving Real Events into Fiction

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick When I began the early scribbles for what eventually became Trails in the Sand, I was writing about current events. BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill still led the headlines as oil gushed unabated into the Gulf of Mexico. Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine explosion made headlines in few months after […]

  P. C. Zick

  March 11, 2013

  Ramblings of a Writer, Writing Tips

  authors, BP oil spill, characters, coal mine disaster, current events, Deepwater Horizon, fiction, history, novel, writing