The cover of the Ontario offering for the Canadian Historical Mysteries Collection from BWL Publishing to be released November 2024 To find out more please click on the cover I recently came across some old pictures. I look at the girl in those photos and I wonder who she is. It's almost like she's a different person and not a younger me, which is absurd. But I realize how much I have changed as I grow older. Maiden, Mother, Matriarch, Crone. I don't mind growing older, I just feel like I've somehow lost a bit of connection with the younger me. I used to believe I could do anything I ..read more

  Here is the cover for October's release - The Horror Writer's Demise. Having fun researching the mny things I need to know. Probably not a cozy like The Mrs. Miller's books but more of a mystery and developing romance. The heroine is about 30 and has a five year old son and a mother who watches the child. The hero is a widower with a five year old son and who owns a house that was divided into two living areas. Even though four years has passed since his wife's death, he has clung to memories. As for her, the father of her son left without marriage and has successfully vanished. She ha ..read more

  Click here for purchase options for this award-winning series. https://www.bookswelove.net/kavanagh-j-c/ In last month's blog, I told you I'd be representing my township in a Simcoe County exhibition for local authors. Led by students at the local college in Barrie, (Georgian College), and in collaboration with the Simcoe County Museum, the exhibit featured famous and wanna-be famous authors who reside or were former residents within the County. According to Katherine Nelson, a student spearheading the exhibition, the "project is centred around the rich literary history of the ..read more

                                          Please click this link for book and author information While researching 1918 fashion for my historical-novel-in-progress, I stumbled upon a 1918 Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogue, which someone had uploaded on the internet. The catalogue's 1,676 pages provided a treasure trove of details about that year in time and brought back memories of catalogue browsing in my younger days.   In Canada, where I grew up, the Eaton's mail-orde ..read more

  Goodbye winter. Hello spring. Another round of setting clocks ahead is behind us as well as all the rant on social media about why we continue with this practice. Some people blame farmers for screwing with our circadian rhythm, but they're not the culprits. Cows and crops rely on the sun. Not clocks. Maybe that’s why Saskatchewan ignores time change. In 1895, George Hudson, an entomologist, made the first attempt to introduce time change. He wanted the world to go ahead two hours in the spring so he could hunt bugs in daylight after his day-job ended. He was unsuccessful with his req ..read more

     Vanessa Hawkins Author Page      Yes! You see correctly! I have finally included another cover amongst my books! Twice Hung is finally finished (at least the draft) and I can rest easy knowing that it has now flown off to visit the editors, who will--hopefully--rip it apart until I cry and feel sorry for myself. A good editor does that, ya know. Any editor that tells you the first draft is perfect is... well, fibbin'. Get you a Doctor Frankenstein if you can, because an editor that can take a few bare bones and help you to stick some meat on them, is worth e ..read more

  The Red Quilt  Sweet Christmas Story  Click here to buy        J. S. Marlo's BWL Books NASA estimates that 31.6 millions people live in the path of today's total solar eclipse. I'm not among these millions of people, and I will only experience a partial eclipse, but it's still a big thing. Around here, school kids will be kept inside at recess so they don't accidentally, or not, look at the sun. Here are some facts about solar eclipses: - A solar eclipse occurs when the Sun, the Moon, and Earth are aligned. It's called syzygy ..read more

  Click here for purchase info Ask almost any author of historical fiction and we'll tell you we love doing the research for our books almost as much as we love writing them. My favorite was the research I did for Erin's Children, the sequel to my debut novel, Kelegeen. The reason it was extra enjoyable was because I set Erin's Children in Worcester, Massachusetts, the city in which I have worked for almost 20 years.  I grew up in Holden and I still live there. The town line runs down my street so all I have to do is walk across the street and I'm in Worcester. Despite living s ..read more

https://books2read.com/Her-Scottish-Legacy I’m so glad winter is over and the days are getting longer and warmer. I have spent my winter down the social media rabbit hole, answering questions on lists to see what I know, what I eat, where I’ve been, how old I am based on pictures of my youth, who I know and if I’m smarter than a fifth grader. I will admit that I don’t answer online because nobody really wants to know whether I open my Oreos and lick the frosting while getting a tattoo, but I mentally answer and sometimes put my score in the comments section. I’ve found that you ..read more

   https://bookswelove.net/morris-rosemary/ Thoughts About Writing with Style.   In my novels I show what my characters are doing or experiencing by minimising how often I write was, had, feel, felt and feeling.   For example. Ann had felt too hot when she was running down the hill. Alterative. Yesterday, Ann perspired as she raced down the hill.   She could feel tears stinging her eyes, Alternative. Tears stung her eyes,   I don’t like body parts which do peculiar things.   He lifted his head to look up. What did he lift it with? Alternative. He looked up ..read more