Slip Into Something Victorian Blog

OK, we all know Victorians were into games - cards, croquet, tennis, you name it, they did it, invented it, or expanded upon it. Modern poke...

Well, Lord Stanley certainly went about it the right way. The Stanley Cup finals are on, featuring my Ottawa Senators against the Anaheim Du...

Last year after RWA’s national conference in Atlanta, I took a tour of Andersonville National Historic site, named for the infamous Civil Wa...

The world’s sole surviving extreme clipper, Cutty Sark was built in 1869, and launched November 22. In 1951, Prince Philip took possession ...

I probably blogged about this before, and will no doubt do so again, but I once more feel the need to say how convenient the internet is to ...

Two weeks ago (ok, ok, FINE! Closer to 3) I posted a blog on how I hadn't done on bit of my 2007 goals. I can now safely revise that. Th...

With e-mail, instant messaging, cellular phones, as well as land-line telephones, we of the 21st century don't need to write letters to ...

As I bang my head against my computer desk I realize it's probably not helping. Funny thing is, no matter how hard I bang, the words I n...

In the past few weeks, I have struggled with finding time to write. No, that’s not true. I have struggled with making time to write. But ...

A co-worker of mine recently returned from a library conference and brought me back a few stacks of paper on reader's advisory (how to a...

I've been writing toward publication for about twelve years, but had only considered writing romance for the past five. Although I'd...

Susan (who's always on top of these things) gave me the jolt I needed to examine my writing goals . I wish I hadn't. And we were doi...

Ruminating with friends about Arbor Day and the Green Movement, I was reminded that the Victorian Societies relied upon the precursor to the...

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. ~ Douglas Adam...

My Victorian era manuscript underway utilizes an obstacle of an arranged marriage. In today’s world, marriages are dissolved easily enough t...

We've just started a new season of baseball. I knew baseball was played in camps during the Civil War and decided to do some research in...

It's April and we're now more than one quarter into the new year. I thought I'd revisit the writing goals I made in January on t...

Unarguably, the height of the Victorian era Society gathered around London during the reign of Queen Victoria. Ladder-climbers – socially or...

Why Did They Do It? In this final installment of my series on women Civil War soldiers, now that I've explained how women managed to joi...

OK, she's a friend, and would read anything I wrote, but that isn't the point. She's actively interested in Victoria & Alber...