Writing the Renaissance

 I'm pleased to announce that the original short story I wrote for the Historical Novel Society North America Conference contest was amo...

  Many thanks to the second round judges who awarded my manuscript DAUGHTER OF ENVY the Silver Medal in the Ancient to 16th Century Category...

                    I am thrilled and honored to announce that the first three chapters of my manuscript, DAUGHTER OF ENVY, earned a spot on...

It's always a thrill to discover sixteenth century artifacts in twenty-first century America. This past weekend, I visited one of San Fr...

Renaissance courtiers loved a good party. Fêtes , or celebrations, at court lasted for days and included any number of events: lavish banque...

Any novel that quoted Victorian poet Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" would be a favorite of mine, but when one of the victims i...

Fans of sixteenth century France, rejoice! A new miniseries about Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of King Henri II, is currently under produ...

Like any author, I love it when characters I have written about come into the public eye. Artist duo Jean and François Clouet, featured in m...

I'm excited to share with you today the cover of Gill Paul 's new novel, THE COLLECTOR'S DAUGHTER: A Novel of the Discovery of T...

Today is the 527th anniversary of the birth of the artist Giovanni Battista da Jacopo, known as Il Rosso Fiorentino (the Red-headed Florenti...

Did you know that Daphne du Maurier, of REBECCA fame, wrote a novel set during the French Revolution? My discovery of THE GLASSBLOWERS was a...

The final volume of Patricia Bracewell's trilogy on Emma of Normandy, Queen of England, publishes on March 2, 2021 from Bellastoria Pres...

The wait was definitely worth it. THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK (Bellastoria Press, March 2) caps off Patricia Bracewell's trilogy on eleve...

While researching hunting dogs in sixteenth century France, I discovered Jacques du Fouilloux's treatise, LA VÉNERIE,  online at Gallica...

Despite the trauma of the pandemic (or maybe because of it), 2020 turned out to be an amazing year of reading for me. I managed to finish 44...